Prison Chains

Wake up...

Alarms in your head

That keep going off through the day

Another deadline to separate time

As you ease into your prison chains

You're human fueld burning out

Fulfilling your destiny

As a plunging line on a time graph

An art form of this century

These prison chains are your making

A disease you embrace

You're smiling but the gaps start showing

Its like a cancer in your face

Prison chains

Didn't see them coming

Till they were firmly in place

You're still smiling...

An emptiness growing

Where you once had a face

You gave up so much of you life

You couldn't have know what for

Noting you built was meant to last

And no one was keeping score

You're a victim of the surmise

That these chains were too strong

They were nailed to the open skies

Untested far too long

And as I watch you multiply

Into a vortex of human pain

Can I smash the mirrors between you and I?

The last of my prison chains

Suraj Mani

Motherjane