A prisoner of your love. I stand behind four walls of gray. <br />- Alone; your memory my only company, each solitary day. <br />Locked down; twenty four hours around the clock, without you near. <br />- Living dreams of the past it seems, are all that I hold dear. <br />Constantly and always there, memories of you flow through the air. <br />- Constantly reminding me of our love. That we no longer share. <br />A prisoner of your love. Can I do the time? That's my only fear. <br />- And now the echo's of my lonely heart are the only sounds I hear. <br />Trapped; in this cinder block room. Shadows of gloom are here to stay. <br />- Trapped here without your love, as my blood turns prison gray. <br />Release may never come to me. This cell's become my home you see. <br />- Reliving how things used to be, in this gray walled penitentiary. <br />Alcatraz; is where I dwell. Where these gray walls are my living hell. <br />- Although one day escape I may. Right now's too soon to tell. <br />Zenith's, I know our love had reached. I'll love you still as time goes on. <br />- Zealously i'll wait for thee on ''The Rock''; till my last breath is gone.. <br /> <br />************************************************************************************ <br /> <br />Author notes: <br />Written in double Acrostic - <br />This poem was inspired by a picture of Alcatraz Prison <br />''The Rock'' as they called it then. Built in 1866, closed <br />one hundred years later - and a poem written by one the <br />prisoners: <br /> Untitled - <br /> I awaken to gray <br /> And gray is my morning sun <br /> I live gray <br /> And all days are like one <br /> There are no colors <br /> Only shadows along the way <br />Sometimes I think, the blood in my body <br /> Must also be prison gray<br /><br />Thad Wilk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-prisoner-of-your-love-double-acrostic/
