Imprisoned by love

I searched but never found the key
the door was open, but I was tied
with chains of fate, those that judge
a life sentence was no shock
disowned by friend and visits rare
marriage was no wild affair
scampering rats of spite
straw palliasse, home comforts gone
lice the scourge of tempers raw
belittled with an ego stripped
 taxonomy its list provides
despair and its graded slide
within a cage the circling hands of time
sweep relentless as the guilt of crime
a tariff set with no reprieve
handcuffed to beauties darker side
the bruises love cannot remove
stabs that never show a scar
inmate, seeking just revenge
sweet torment or hell in solitude contained?

What was my crime I hear you ask
your freedom is the will to guess
the battleground of violent storms
loves, velvet padded cell of thorns