Incarceration

   
     
     
Graying skin polished  
stainless reflection. motivation resistance at war  
futuristic thoughts crowd  
the space  reserved for misery.    
     
Day Room  
beneath fluorescents absent  
windows, a room without a day  
perception  in duplicate.  
   
Change forced  
by the moon, and the sun  
over head then below  
God, how I miss her warmth    
magnetic pull forcing  
these bones to react    
helmeted rebar iron caged cap    
shortcomings failures  echo  
between cells,  which ones    
are mine?    
     
Rubberized soles mark  
their impression reverberate  
in the rhythm of my reality      
listen, smooth  
click the lock  
another day incarcerated