Everyday peering … out through an exhaustive pattern of steel
Searching … for a portion where window stains are transparent
Endeavoring to comprehend … why the things I see are real
Phantasizing … but realizing that life … is apparent
Sulking … in the useless idea of deploring incarceration
Each day longing … for freedom – but wondering its definition
Astounded at the world and its futile participation
Acknowledging … everything – allowing ALL … recognition
Beyond these bars, “The FREE-WORLD” … to translate confused conception
For it is a misleading society – democracy and the American way of life
Constantly evaluating circumstances and discovering plight deception
I remain puzzled at God’s omnipotence – that’s funny – also about my wife
Pondering my life a struggle, exaggerating ideals I’ve heard
Witnessing … another struggle … of one creature proclaimed to be
The ultimate of independence … an awakening one-legged blackbird
Now inquiring upon my consciousness … “DO I REALLY WANT TO BE FREE?”
Note: Phantasizing is a combined word using fantasy and phantom.
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Poem #16 | Written June 17, 1972
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