Prisoner

A cage, a dungeon But not of towers Or bars that hold No ball and chains Nor guards nor wardens But of remembrance old A sentence passed with the first kiss A price paid for that single sight A prisoner now for life An age to spend like this An appeal for freedom To be rid of this despair I would break these walls and run If only I knew where A forehead now swollen And marked where I bow I beseech to which ever god that would harken To absolve me of this transgression I’ve done Sit here all day and fight back the addictions Of sweet laughter and musky perfume Of skin heated by a thousand forges of desire It burned to ashes the bridges of my return Afraid to close my eyes I see hers black like obsidian Wrapped forever in her serpentine embrace Now condemned to live without I exhausted the elixir to balm my lonely cries Shout myself hoarse That I have been forsaken I have been left to die After giving all that could be given A martyr for a lost cause A captain lost to the sea Now my history laid bare to repeat Every hour to every day to every night I stand waiting for execution This fate of mine I could never beat