We work to live, 

Live to work;

Same stuff,

Different day

Recycled emotions

Thoughts

Words

Sentences

Teachings

They become your parents

They know every thought;

Feeling

They know who you talk to;

Who you don’t

You have to ask permission to 

Eat;

Get water,

Go to the bathroom

When can we relax

And take a breath

A breath that we may have not known we have been holding

For they are more worried about the percentage on paper

Than they are the percentage of us who cannot stand to come one more day

To this place we are supposed to call home,

To this place that is supposed to be 

Safe

Refreshing

Home 

Away from

Home

I cannot call a false imprisonment facility my

Home

Away from

Home

- O.H.