No one sees the bars when the jailer is your mind.<\/p>\n
Who do you petition for freedom?<\/p>\n
How do you escape the confinement of a space that is with you always?<\/p>\n
Even when you appear to be free.<\/p>\n
It is critical of you, more than most.<\/p>\n
Then claims to be your key to freedom.<\/p>\n
Solitary confinement – when all you want to be is free<\/p>\n
Locked away with just your thoughts<\/p>\n
Escape or release may never be.<\/p>\n
Trapped in the prison of your mind.<\/p>\n
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