Oh, Within

Oh, peasant in a noble's world
You stand so low and sunken
Shuffling through hard life you go
Feeling the haughty stares of privilege
Fighting to survive one more day in darkness
Oh, serf in a Lord's lands
Bow and scraping existence
Wring your hands and pay your tithe
Ne'er a kind word for your troubles
Giving your best for his worst in return
Oh, child on an adult's highway
Fall in place and toe the line
Total obedience a price of youth
Expectations piled at your tiny feet
Mental breakdown before you've grown
Oh, woman in a man's house
Running his days and raising children
Freedom is now distant memory
Four walls your suffocating prison
Passion long since abandoned you here
Oh, heart within my body
Twisted, desolate, forlorn and broken
Not worth the love showered upon you
Damaged goods beyond repair
Loneliness your eternal calling card.