life sentence

When your body is a prison cell
your bones are rusted bars
your eyes a wimpy window
that illuminate your scars

Tally marks etched in skin
it's one, it's two, it's ten, now twenty?
losing track, your track record,
hysteria's aplenty

Control's a luxury run dry
your life a sentence being served
doing time 'til time is up
now just is just a word.

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