Is this prison real?
Not until I can see the bars.
Once I see them though...
Everything changes.
It always has.
The prison is real.
I hunger to be free.
Reaching between the bars it escapes.
Elusive like a puff of smoke, freedom turns away.
The bars leave a long shadow.
They drag slowly on my soul.
Heaviness from their cold lock chill me.
Till I can get them to let go.
I tug and dig my way through.
I do it because I love you.