Poem:Prison

Four walls closing in
Trying to strangle me
I pull the handle and it won’t open
The door is locked

Run, I run thru an opening
But the prison chases me
Every where I look its there
Trying to hold me, under lock and key

I look at the first wall
And see the ignorance of man
Not wanting to understand
One another

The second contains racism
Hating a person because of
Skin color
Because of culture

Greed lies in the third
People trying to get
What they can so
That they won’t come up short

The fourth is full of contempt
For those who have and strive
To make their lives better
To make a better world

I run, running from
Myself, running from man
So many are blind
Blind to what is in front of them

The four walls that
Are slowly closing in
On all of us

Not realizing that all four
Walls add up to lies
Lies told every day
To every one

Just a simple change
Would make them come down
Education, love and an
Open mind would change

But we all run into these
Walls sometimes one, other times all
People trying to stop you

Maybe some day the
Walls will come down
Crumbling to our feet
Maybe the prison will fall