Fleeting footsteps fall
Upon pavement in the hall
Steady sounds pounding
Barefoot and running
Looking back for none
Heading towards the sun
Despite the angry clamors
Behind you from the slammers
Never going back
To the voided black
Bare and alone
Nothing but a pile of bones
Hunger has eaten flesh away
Solitary emptiness has led mind astray
Driven to the brinks of insanity
The silent killer in humanity
The roaring barks of canines
Fiercely on your tail, malign
Along with the whistles and shouts
Of guards alerting the other scouts
You push further towards the gates
Key to your freedom and your straits
The bars that kept you in captivity
Now towards them is your proclivity
Must get out and as far from here
To start a new life without such fear
Wrongly accused of doing such crimes
But not a word heard through evil times
Feet pound constant upon rocky earth
Apathetic to nature’s mirth
Sharp stones cut jaggedly into skin
Leaving bloody stains where you’ve been
The sweat upon your brow descends
Along your cheek it transcends
Meeting an end at your chapped lips
The saltiness stinging like slashes of whips
Flick of the tongue rids the saline sweat
Yet inside you continue to fret
The dryness of your mouth growing
But you keep on going
Past the iron gateway
That caged you in, for you to decay
Into the world grandiose
Full of choices in immeasurable doses
But all that matters in this moment
Is to get to that extent
Legs tiring out, but will pushes on
Fleeing into the horizon, gone
Creating a new identity
Living in peace and serenity
Absent from the ominous confines
Of a cell darker than the deepest mines
