Strange Prison

This is a strange kind of prison.

Its walls are made of ‘I do’,

its barred windows from ‘I love you’

and, technically, you can leave

if you choose

but there’s a bigger prison

outside these walls;

the barred windows look out

onto horrors too great

to comprehend. Yes this

is a strange prison indeed – 

a box within a bigger box,

a storm in the eye

of a storm bigger still…

I lie on my bed

and contemplate the ceiling – 

those strange, intricate patterns.

Joshua Seigal