poems

VIII - A Day

My eyes open slowly to receive the faint light
coming from the window that is barred up.
I look around the room and am blinded
by the white paint. The only change,
myself and my blue gown.
They look at me through a small window.
They think I cannot know of it. Yet I do.
How do they expect me to change,
when they kept all alone?
Later, I am let out to mingle with the
other "visitors".
To talk and play the game.
I play their game and tell them
what they want to hear. I laugh.
I wait for their pathetic reasoning,
on why I said what I said.
I wait.
I wonder.
I laugh.
I play.
And I shall live another day.


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