Usylum

We were taught to be afraid of ourselvesThose who were involved a little too muchTheir reserved place in the sanitaryThe ones who knew themselves a little too muchWe punished themThe ones who seek the definitions of their ownAs they couldn’t breathe in a language they didn’t ownThe so called lawmakers called them in for a beatingBurn all your books they said Needless to say the searchers of language refusedAll at once they started screaming Screaming from the death beds they so consciously chose But everyone knows what happens if you cross the approved line of anomaly We are taught to be afraid of each otherFrom those around usTo be hyper vigilant and alarmed As if all the good overnight becomes the badAs if for lawmakers meeting their doom, we should get sadYou see everything my dear was meant to divideSo you couldn’t hold hands with the stranger besideWe were taught to fear each otherParanoia turned into bruises Because no one wants to be the first to get hurtAt least we have the title victorian for a reasonWe call those the victors who played the game lawmakers createMeanwhile the thinkers were concerned The laws were made so they would on paper seek asylum So that they couldn’t embody the sights of the society and help us grow