Held in a vise
Cruelly forsaken
Life has been hard
No sense in taking
Anything offered
It can’t be real
Life is too hard
No one could feel
Anything for the captive
Bound in his heart
Hard lines and words
When can he start
Seeing another world
waiting to heal
maybe a lover
wanting to peel
Away at the crust
surrounding his heart
opened by light
make a new start