Imprisoned From Within Poem by Terry Rovert

As a child, the family taboo was playing outside the house gates,
And like treason, punishable by death
I recall the neighbours shame calling us prisoners
And the unimaginable fear after loitering outside

Time passed, we grew and i rented my own shelter
A one room very much like a prison cell
But it felt like home, only more books and movies
Trying to keep my mind far away from the paranoia

But as soon as the books ran out
I was to look outside the window
Strangers everywhere, laughing and enjoying.
How I wish to be part of them
But the prison from within refrained me
Threatening to tell the Warden
Till even unknowingly I became vexed with internal rules to blindly obey the fear

But today you blame me for being my own island
You blame me, for I can do without any of you
Because for too long I was imprisoned from within
Though my life gets easier with you in it