I swim in my prison
Of shallow water this
Prison a bowl, all I do
Is go in circles, getting
Dizzy as its the only way
To go.

I spend my days in this
Watery cell, three meals
A day, locked up but I did
Nothing wrong. I see you
Smug as you have open
Space. I just swim around
For the 10552 time.

I wish to swim in the open
Sea, but I was taken with
No wish to be in this cage,
Tiny thing which you  have
Brought for me.

I will dream of open spaces
Water further than the eye
Can see, but then I hit the
Glass wall of my cage an it
Is now my limited existence
In this bowl and me...

Days turn into nights and back into days again,
a circadian rhythm of sorts
and how fast it goes too.
And who do we really
want to spend time with?
Oh that elusive one
we once knew
or have never met.
And when the guard is down,
they steal your heart away
playing you like a fool,
making for a long
road to ***.
Again and again.