Prison Life

prison life. life prison. life as a prison. prison as a life. what can be said is simple, if one doesn’t want to be where one is, doing what one is doing, then one is imprisoned--- the walls are high, built of the strongest, most impenetrable concrete & no matter how many swings your arms may take with the heaviest instrument you can find, not a crack will be made & no Shawshank Redemption tunnels will be burrowed out, because alas, this isn’t ****ing hollywood, now is it. this prison is something that you are taught from the youngest age, that you do not get placed in unless you do something wrong---you’re taught by those who are already imprisoned by their own deeds & their own submission to the will of the whole & as they are already hollowed out & dead inside, the act of imprisoning others is no longer an isolated incident, it is a way of life---like the most destructive of diseases, it festers out from the minds who have given up, who have lost control of themselves, who have abandoned all creative & beautiful aspects of what it is to be human, who have settled on trying to make all those around them walk, talk & act like what it is they’ve become. from the inside out comes change, because the prison thrust upon us by others is not one that needs to be accepted, it is not one that needs to be ingested & it is not one that needs to be passed on like a baton in some grand world games that brings smiles to those already washed of their own sense of being, of their own sense of what it was like to have any individual sense of happiness, whatsoever. humor, if you let it, if you indulge in it, will obliterate the attempt on your life. humor is that lovely contagion that will bring endorphins to your brain when you laugh & it will cleanse the mind of the walls imposed on you daily. laugh in the face of those who need things to be the way they want. laugh at those who march with power they need to feel good about themselves. laugh & don’t worry about the world cuing in, getting the picture & laughing with you---laughter, humor & smiling within can bring you out of this prison, regardless of whether you are allowed to be free.