Dying In The Walls

Just walls
Not strongholds or fortresses
A moment tall
Before I fall again

They’ll knock them down
Leave me foolish and weak
But what I have found
It’s a home I seek

* * *

Just walls
Not underground or hideaways
A deeper kind of fall
Is this a mistake?

Make their job easier
The pain it always finds
Me; not him nor her
No I cannot hide

* * *

Just walls
Not some bars or prison
What I know I saw
This is Hell for sin

How I’ve tried to die
To set this captive free
Don’t have to wonder why
There’s no escape for me

* * *

Just walls
Not white walls, asylum
The doctors or the law
Say anyone but him

I know I’m mad; I’m crazy
They don’t know what to blame
So they just blame me
But they don’t know my name

* * *

Just walls
Not a home for me
If I had the balls
I would just up and leave

Wherever could I go?
To take a single step
Everybody knows
An angel says not yet…

* * *

Just walls
My life
I won’t escape them all
But the misery and strife
Bullets, pills, some poisons
Don’t they come in boxes?
Me the walls are fallin’
These walls a box to die in

Copyright © 2011, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.