FEATURED POETRY: Trapped, Chained, Imprisoned: A Battle From Within by Edrian Rowen Macawile

 

You are trapped

Tigers and lions, now beasts surround you

Play dead to avoid death, pray as you do

Sinner’s Prayer unheard, monsters bellowed, you’re wrapped

Killing knives, slaying swords, are these enough?

One down, ain’t done, be strong and stay tough!

Kill the tigers; slay the lions – dead meat

Blood and sweat, bitter yet sweet, many more to meet and beat

You are chained

In a realm of darkness, hopeless but fearless

Screams of sorrow, tears of terror – heart hardened however hopeful

Fears faded, strength spawned; with all power, chains are broken

Guns and arms – everyone swiftly runs, echoin’ loudly are alarms

Guns banging, bullets breaking, bodies bleeding

Head shot – first kill; others left to kill, liters of blood to spill

Ground so red, bound in and see the corpse of dead: you escaped death

You are imprisoned

In a room of gloom, with fellow preys seeking for challenge and revenge

Beckoned by beasts when trapped, screamed and shrieked when chained

United as one, called as one – we are amalgamated for a revolution

Big bombs booming, clashing cannons crashing: a start of a war

You against yourself, I versus myself, we against ourselves: losing, not an option

You beat your beasts, I thrash my titans, and we defeat our demons: winning not afar

Fists of a champion, heart of a victor – we have prevailed from a self-insurrection