Beyond the Bars

Beware of the Watchmen.

If you are thinking of escape,

they are on alert

and will catch you in their gaze.

and convince you that

here is where you belong

sure, it's almost all you have known

Beware of the Watchmen

if you need to get free;

to open the shackles

and learn how to breathe

For beyond the bars

it's uncertain and cruel

To leave this security

Would be the wish of a fool

Beware of the Watchmen

and their cocktail of fixes

for if you try to get past

their barbed wire and ditches

you'll have become so hooked

on their dopamine lines

you'll return like a dog

with tail between thighs

Give me back my screens

Give me back my vice

Give me back my blanket

Give me back my lies

But Sir,

the doors are wide open

and you have the key

You own this prison

You didn't want to be free!