The Life Sentence

By Lynn Ockersz

Prison breaks make it to the front page,

But for the people of the Nodding Land,

There’s this different take:

Strong iron bars don’t always make a prison cage,

Nor are cavernous cells places of slow death,

But a guilty conscience is all of these;

And a torture chamber it will turn out to be,

For wrong-doers allowed to roam free.