My Minds Own Domain



I wondered today why when from prison I left
I was confined not by bars but my mind
I search for the key that will open the doors
But for me it is not meant that I find

To sit in my cell that I can not escape
Is a feeling of lonliness, depression and pain
To stare at life while I sit in this hell
Every day leaves me feeling insane

Why can not I just open the doors
The ones that so wickedly hold me inside
And break free from the prison that holds me
God knows how many times I have tried

I guess maybe I should just come to embrace it
Learn to accept it's confinement and pain
It may be bareable to live with in time
This Hell of my Minds own Domain



© James D. Merwin 
July 11, 2001



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