Behind bars

Once I wrote lucid
‘I gave up fear for bars
and I was no longer a prisoner’

And that was true for the notion that
It is not the barricades that confine you but
The terror for the nothingness that has a hold on you

However it is a lie when it comes to
The denial of the barriers of guilt and deceit
Wherewith others have bound you from early age

So now I must pen think for yourselves 
Think yourself free from sin that has no worth
Do not give in to the guile that you owe them anything

And admittedly the emotion now and then
More often than sometimes the bars are just fine
Because it excludes the for you so threatening element

But please keep in sane mind
That where the delinquent walks free and
The innocent is in captivity, who deceives who