My 7x6 cell

Four white walls

A stainless steel toilet

And a stainless steel door

A metal slab for a bed

This is my 7x6 cell

Where I am kept in solitary confinement

22 ½ hours, day in and day out

Year after year

Meant to keep my voice from being heard

Kept away from all human contact

Where I’m meant to be forgotten of

Isolation and seclusion is their goal

Losing my sanity is a plus.

Subjected to full body searches

Whenever I’m to leave my cell

Then and only then

Do I have the only physical contact for the day

With metal handcuffs and leg shackles I wear

That dig into my flesh

Leaving me deep embodied scars

That will forever be with me

Like tattoo tears .

This is my abyss

That I attempt to crawl out of

With the beauty I hunger for

Behind my 7x6 cell.