Incanceration - Vonnegut

Incarceration

We lock ourselves in total blindness

We wander thoughtlessly

As we refuse to seek a guidance

Incanceration

Enchained in pain, we blame each other

But what is worse

The voice of human has been smothered

Leave my fresh wounds unopened still

My blackened blood makes me sick

Leave all my prayers where they dwell

All I fear for is myself

Incanceration

As cancer eats my friend away

My cancer lights me my way

We bury common sense

In all-consuming sands

Incarceration

We sentence human to die

We roam with eyes closed tight

As we replace you with I

It’s not the cancer that kills

It is the cancer that kills the will to live

It is the cancer that kills the will to be