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Prison Break

December 21, 2011
By Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM, Leesville, South Carolina
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Alexandrathepoet PLATINUM, Leesville, South Carolina
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If nothing else, believe in art.<br /> ~Unknown

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Who said we had to be prisoners?
And why the h*** did we agree?
To stay locked up in a prison cell,
giving up our right to be free?
Let's break the chains that bind us,
Let's put this past behind us,
Let us leave this sheltered world!
Our opressors,
our captors,
let us hang them from the rafters,
we'll run together into the night.
This life, it's a puppet show but we're burning down the theatre.
We know this plot all too well...
Tonight we riot against the masses,
We're breaking out of the prison cell.

© Amy-Leah J., Mount Laurel, NJ

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