This place is a prison
Locked behind bars
Chained to the stone wall
Trapped in the cell block
Doors locked, key tossed
Stained stone and cracked floor
A deep hole dug for each
Dug by society, dug by you
Sides collapse with each grasp
Dirt chokes as it falls
Roots break in the hands
This place is a prison
Dark and empty, cold and alone
Stalagmites sharp and threatening
Hanging from the ceiling
Everyone lost and stumbling
Unable to find the way to light
Trapped by time, frozen in place
All still move forward
As the river that never ends
As the seasons that always change
As the setting moon and rising sun
Trapped by civilization’s rules
Forced to conform
Forced to fit the mold
Originality crushed
Under the jackboots of society
This planet we call home
These lands which we usurped
This country then stolen from us
While no one even noticed
Too caught up in their egocentricity
And people are the guards
Armed with their ignorance and greed
Not one can be liberated
Until they escape the shells
And from all earthly matters leave
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