Confined to the cell of my thoughts

By Possesion

|Locked inside a cage with no bars to hold me.
the guards watch with unseeing eyes.
neither attempting to hold me back nor letting me by.|

|Drowning in an ocean with no salt water filling my lungs.
Sea farers haunt so devastatingly.
Neither Pulling me out or pushing me back in.|

|Running in a black tunnel, with no beggining or end.
Walls to either side of my shoulder hitting me.
Not a tight enough squeeze to kill me, not loose enough to let me out.|

No way to distil and separate the lies they told me.
|To keep me here.|
This sanctuary, So unforgiving.
|So freely I weep.|
Taken aback by the thoughts I spit in their direction.
|The echoes of empty space drag them down.|
So far, So Gone, my recklessness unitiring.
|My apostasy to unrelenting.|
The gaping mouths of awe and hate.
|Open to the silence that is so loud and freshly printed.|
Here in my mind.






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Copyright 2005 Shay Holland
Published on Thursday, August 4, 2005.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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Comments on "Confined to the cell of my thoughts"

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  • MidSummers Eve On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, MidSummers Eve (38)By person wrote:

    :) even your word are imprisioned, nice.

  • Doc On Monday, August 15, 2005, Doc (143)By person wrote:

    prison, death, abandonment.

  • Possesion On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, Possesion (136)By person wrote:

    sums it up well.

  • Thorn On Sunday, August 14, 2005, Thorn (282)By person wrote:

    Wow. I love the way it's written. Very nice.

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