Trapped and Lost
I've been condemned and trapped this day,
Exiled to an unfamiliar cage.
Confined for who knows how much time,
Perhaps a year, perhaps an age.
But are there no friends that I had
To come forward with their own claim
That they, too, were a part of this
And such should also take some blame?
I've been jailed for an unknown crime,
Yet accomplices I had none?
How am I to bear this prison
When my sentence has only begun?
If just one familiar face
Was with me in this box,
I might learn to accept, in time,
My prison's silver locks.
But no, those memories are past—
They cause nothing but pain.
Their touch weighs down my broken heart
More than any ball and chain.
So yes, I'll learn to smile, and I'll
Enchant my captors with fire-games.
And yes, I'll mask my sorrow at
The steady silence of the flames.
But an outsider I'll ever be
After the audience has laughed and clapped,
And though they call me wild and free
The bitter truth is…I'm trapped.