009
You never know the true meaning of hell
until men in white suits
force you into a rocking chair
and tell you to stay there.
They left me nothing
but blank wallpaper
to stare at
all day long.
But I wasn’t the only one with this fate.
Oh, I was just a brick in the wall.
Everywhere I looked, there were
living stone statues,
hollow cases of people
who’d lost their minds so, so
long ago, being forced
to do everything but
anything.
I didn’t bother asking the doctors
if we had anything to do,
because I already knew that we
didn’t
We weren’t people to them;
we were just zoo animals.
All we needed was food, water,
and a cage.
