No Prison Of Mind Poem by Merlin Mwaura

Prison is not entirely confinement
it can be physically restrictive...
but you only bring the society of a convicted mind
to engage themselves with more intimacy.
Our situations in life are no more as restrictive
because humanity glares at us with unrelenting reserves.
So like prisoners, we are in constant conversations
with amplitudes of ourselves and our minds.
We refine and shed like snakes the old skin.
I reinvent myself on a constant struggle within
We have become like scholars,
sentenced to reflect on life.
Because the time served is a lifetime.
We are eager to impress our judge,
Doesn't matter who we make the judge...
For our past become crystal clear as time winds,
Like convicts growing more aware of the crimes committed,
than a justice system governing our land.
And when it comes to psychological evaluations
Our moral fibres would serve as interesting fodder
to morality issues in our country.
Our history presents some things as repetitive.
An' the modern man still grapples with them.
We are the patterns of our thought,
When we have our most undivided attention to genius
Realizing the challenge,
We result to propose dimensions
That compose and define a mind of genius.
We do our greatest harm,
for a mind is free an' full of love for things
and because no meager mind has a matching charm!
Yet, There are those who are free even behind bars,
For truly,
There is no prison of mind.
Only what is in our mind, and that we are.