There’s a world that exists
that people hear of but don’t see of
It’s a world within a world
with no emotion-
then it can’t be broken

When you breathe in the air
some fall with despair
for they realize where they are
knowing now you’re in its grasp

With its own laws whether outdoors or indoors
it changes the way you think
it lets you dream if it lets you sleep
when you look out your window
you know there’s know-where to go
you just see walls that reach for your thoughts
through bars of iron that want you crying

But you don’t let it in
you close your mind and think of the time
when it opens its jaws if its hasn’t ignored
the time you’ve done -
you’re free to run.

D.S Barnard
Yatala Labour Prison
Northfield, SA 5085
AUSTRAL