"The Changed Prisoner"
Bornfaith Godstime@bornfaithgodstime910173
11 months ago
Locked up in the walls of a prison yard for years,
I could hear her speak continuously as the years went by,
Her voice kept obliterating the reasoning of my mental faculty,
And left a footprint of change in my mind.
I'd forgotten the lores I'd ever known,
A new set of beliefs had set in,
Leading to a feeling of nostalgia with a strong melancholy.
I'd known it's wistful thinking about the already forgotten lores,
I'd had to accept the new lores she tells me daily.
Change they say is constant,
I'd never experienced change at this drastic rate flowing like a waterfall.
Hadn't seen the sun rise or set in years,
All in pitch blackness,
Longed continually for the outside world,
It was a wistful experience.
All day seemed like night
So I'd always had continuous dreary nights,
25 years of misery.
The years had been completed
I'd gotten new orientation, new lores from her.
Beholding the outer world seemed like heaven
All things seemed very beautiful
Every day my eyelids open to see the sunlight, the surroundings and the faces of people were memories to me.
I'd changed, changed for good.
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