Asylum of Darkness

by Katherine Heller

An apparent show
Of carelessness and destruction
In your asylum of darkness
You sit and wait for a future
Served on a silver platter.

It’ll never happen
And we all know it
But in your asylum dreary as it is
No silver platter will be given
At any point in time.

Again and again you are used and abused
Yet you still sit there and wait
For a future to be handed down to you.
In your asylum of darkness no light flows
But here I am a path to the real world.

What’s ruled your life in this asylum
Is something you can change
Alas, you take no advantage of it
And allow it to waste away
I am here now.

Your last chance won’t be thrown away
It has come and with it a future
Of us together all in one
There is light in your dark asylum
You are not alone.