They tell me to treasure life

How can I when I see

The rainbow turns into a dark belt

Across the sky like a hanging rope

The sun blocked by a raven shroud

No longer shines

I hear birdsongs in weeping tones

Like a funeral dirge

The gateway to hope 

Is slammed shut

My mind becomes a prisoner

The world a smothering cell 

People around me are jailors

Watching me with silent scorn

Time becomes unbearable 

I want to escape to a place

Where my senses can be numbed

My thought vanishes 

My spirit freed

By Shih-Fang Wang

From: United States