My Poetry Journal

From Prisoner; To Guard

Who am I to stay where I am not wanted?
I am being held in the cage of life,
Only surviving by what the captors throw at me.
Which is nothing.
How am I even alive when I live on this nothingness?
I am stuck in a time paradox,
Someone get me out!
My claustrophobia is kicking in, I'll go insane!
My life, my worth, deteriorates with every passing moment.
Feeling myself slip away into the dark, I grasp the bars of my holding cell.
Wriggling, shaking, looking for a way out.
Let me go, I say!
I need to go somewhere else where I can do better.
Where I'll have worth.
Where I can be somebody new.
Where I won't be a prisoner.
Where I can be free
To be me.
Why am I here, when I could be out there?
I could be the one to create a new way
To breathe in space, or live on another planet.
I could discover what quarks are made out of,
And a new meaning to the word 'atom'.
I could find a cure for cancer and give
So many people hope that they are going to live.
I could be the one who changes everyone's way of thinking,
or completely destroy it.
I could discover a new radioactive element and create
A bomb to destroy all of humanity and life as we know it,
Just like the comet killed the dinosaurs.
But you don't know, do you?
I could be harmless, or 100% diabolical.
You just don't know the amount of potential I hold, and that's what scares you most;
The fact that I could make or break the world.
That's why you hold me in this prison.
That's why you tell me I won't make it
To the big leagues.
That's why you put me down,
Telling me I'm not worth it.
But not even I know what I can do yet.
How is it you judge so quickly
But with so little knowledge?
Granted, I could do something terrible,
But you could be the one keeping the scientist that could
Find life on another planet, and be able to sustain it, here.
I might be the key to translating the language
Of an alien race, and you are keeping me in this box.
You don't know what I'm capable of,
So why am I locked up when I could do real good?
Take off the lock and let the door swing open wide.
It's not that hard.
Don't be the cause of this world's destruction.
Don't kill everyone by keeping me here.
Let me go, and you could be the one saving the world you see.
I am but a vessel the knowledge and creativity
Flows through to make it to its endpoint.
I am but a mere human who can only understand so much
Before I become too baffled to continue.
Time is wasting, and you do nothing to help.
You have a family too, right?
Don't you have friends you want to save?
All this torment swirling inside will boil over,
Are you willing to take that risk?
I have people I want to save too.
Fine, let everybody die, I can wait.
See you in Hell, oh wait,
It's already here.
Tata, for now.
See ya on the other side, I guess.
Goodbye, my insanity is ruling over my conscience.
I truly am crazy now!
Too late, it's too late...