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Trapped

Torn from the life I’ve known since time began

Bound

Confined

To a prison invisible but omnipresent

Isolated

Tormented

Finally forgotten and ignored

I felt myself eternal

I felt myself immortal

Now just endless days which offer no respite

No escape

Solitary

Veiled threats, hearts full of lies

Dreams are dead

Hope is lost

No escape from this tedium

Dreams are dead

Hope is lost

Still I endure

Trapped

Moments pass like hours

Hours pass like days

Empires rise and fall each breath I take

I am immortal

I am eternal

Yet I remain trapped in this life

Glimmers of hope

Compound despair

As the days all become one

Biding my time

I will outlast

Until I find a way to break free

Dreams take flight

Has too much damage been done?

Can the wrongs be righted?

A weakened shell of what once was

Bent, but not broken

Exhausted, but determined

Bent, but not broken