Shadow

Walk through the halls,
Caving in,
I can't breath,
Trapped.

I could leave,
I won't,
Well trod path,
Like repeated mistakes.

Am I free, a slave?
Next week or forever?
Tomorrow is coming,
Yesterday a memory.

Chains are bound,
Author's cruel design,
Alone in my cell,
I hold the key.

Rest is for the good,
The rest doze,
Labor a curse,
Got to stay alive.

Perhaps a wish,
A song forgotten,
This is not my being,
Just a shadow.