Introduction to Time

Shackles dangle between wrists and ankles,

conversation subdued, almost non-existent,

the ride, quiet,

I know what the story is.

Herded like cattle to slaughter,

my name, my dignity,

sliced away like an unwanted Cancer;

I walk the yard with

strangers all dressed alike,

like me.

Nothing to do that matters.

The outside world a breath away.

City reminders surround me;

a cruel joke no less.

Night falls quickly,

sleep, my most precious friend,

amidst eighteen-hundred other numbers,

in this concrete jungle we now call home.

Herein; every day the same,

every night, a longed-for supplication

in a land of excuses,

and freedom;

a word spoken in silent whispers.