Claustrophobia

A child,
In maximum security.
Parents for jailers, knowing no better.
One cell to next,
Established routine, cell to bus,
Bus to cell, cell to cell.
Incarcerated tradition,
Best kept that way.
Yet child,
Offence-less,
Neither aider, abetter nor perpetrator,
Crime-less captive.
Habits of others key, cramping,
Blocking, preventing, freedom sapping.
Perverting nature’s cause.

But child,
Sprite spirit, free,
Flirting danger’s delicious diversions.
Makes off, mind first,
Rest follows and actions potential.
Rainbows in dreams with
Scented delusions, combine in creation,
Orgies of sensual perplexity.
Dragons chaste virgins’ petals attack,
Deflowering traditions, fates restructuring,
Monoliths crumbling,
New captives creating.

© Sam McKeon 2015