Tripwire

She had been indoctrinated to believe her country was free But she hit the tripwires, had nowhere to flee She learned the hard way that what she'd been taught were lies from a regime that couldn't be fought. His country was designed free, the constitution shows But there are some paths where nobody goes There is organized crime, and ideologues on fire Better keep your mouth shut, or you'll hit a tripwire. A Mafia immigrated and set up shop They hired bad scientists, the cream of the crop Jane didn't know, treated a member with contempt Soon had to run to doctors, wild, and unkempt All sorts of health problems, she couldn't understand She had been a runner, now barely could stand Couldn't sleep at night, strange symptoms during the day She had hit a tripwire, and she had to pay. He saw a pretty woman, her smile drew him in A slippery slope, maybe a sin. His life became a horror movie, with villains unseen he had been in the mire, but they would not let him clean With glee they fastened on him like a clam A perverted science, for a once sinning man They had drugs to make urges go from ember to fire They plotted his downfall, he had tripped that tripwire Do we really know what's around us, not to mention who? Do we know the real rules, and what bad people do? Is our world inverted, at the wrong moment to find that we had it all wrong, it doesn't work as designed?