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Incarceration

Distinct so out of reach to be removed I recall vague in somewhere the warmth of being held comfort nurtured to mothers breast so dependent yet so secure to be there only the beginning only innocent eyes opening they had no perception of fear I cannot recall when I changed nor scratch some point for the point of blame it all happened so quietly everything unseen by tiny increments nobody gave me the rules of the game destined to lose but still forced to choose the subsections in my freedoms ornaments How liberties device born to a prison and a life, alive, an illusion Upon the chains at my wrist I awaken the whiplash of fears fabrication and I'm always afraid, always afraid the eyes of them on me shall menace and drag me down to preordained first breath in penance guilty as charged and sentenced by the self-righteous Say you the dream of awakened and to the need epitomized deliverance only the beginning only innocent eyes opening for they had no knowledge of fear they only expected only anticipated living happily here How liberties device born to a prison and a life, alive, is naught but delusion

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