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Cold Prison Bars

The cold prison bars, our legal boundary,

Now that you've left my character soaked in blood.

Critics, juries, invisible enemies,

Stomping words on my face as I ***** my pride.

 

Collecting flak coins in your pockets, truths they speak,

At least that's what you believe, and that's all you seek.

Hearing their loathe in your dark room's embrace,

Their laughs haunt more than nightmares, a chilling trace.

 

No guns and bullets, yet skilled to ****

As you turn your back, they stab, you kneel.

With a knife of deception and treachery,

Wishing you'd die in a blink, yet they torture gradually.

 

"You always say you're such a prey, a dupe

Who would believe when you're the willing victim?"

Stay in your dark prison where you belong

Grasp your hands 'til it warms, you're safe for now

 

All they wanted to see is your shame penance

Cold prison bars, you were jailed for their crime

You died from all their stabs of criticisms and lies

Screaming, "Is this enough? Are you satisfied?"

 

Wish you could tell them you're not a culprit

Who takes the blame of their offense of no sense

But a lawbreaker of her own pity constitution

Who put her ordinance behind to lavish their pride

 

Thought restrictions would drive you wild

But dark walls were painted of a free hand

Thought solitude will lose your mind

Yet you found the old self, your true friend

 

You've never been the same, never been better

Like a spy with filters in hands sifting hurtful words

That no matter how they abuse, damage or ******

Love makes you brand new to go overboard

 

Walking past through the hall of deliverance

Found golden keys to release your handcuffs

Your uniform now glitters changing in white dress

Only pure hearts can recognize your new price

 

At the end of the spectrum love is patient and waiting

It blinds you the moment it swallows your dark sides

Echoing something you've never heard of,

"Without your death, you couldn't have been reborn this anew so gloriously indestructible"

 

Like a dying tree in front yard that is too sick to save

Left unmoved could **** other surrounding trees

So in your cold prison, they planted your roots to die

But from that safe place, your roots reached their soil of disgrace

 

Victims learn from mistakes but false altruism attracts you

They hunt you again this time now in your white dress

So jump high with your butterfly wings, soar in the sky

Above those hunters, above the cold prison bar

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liz
Published
Mar 20, 2018
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#cold #prison #bar #criticisms

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