Some days you feel like the prisoner
Because time is all you have
So you sit there just thinking
How your gonna survive inside these walls
Sometimes it feel like your always losing power
And the people around you want you dead
And you can't show any weakness
Or the others will think your an easy target
You sit there in your cell and scream
But no one can hear you
Over all the noise that the others make
Because I am the prisoner
I must be bad
Some days you feel like the victim
Because all you feel is pain
So you sit there
Hoping your gonna survive the attack
And it feels like your gonna die
And there's people around you crying
And they're hoping your gonna make it
So you sit in your hospital bed
But no one know how much pain your in
Because there's a new arrival
Who just became a new victim
Because I am the victim
I must be weak
Some days you feel like the prison guard
Because you have to watch your back
And the backs of the ones who want to hurt you
And the other prisoners
And you must follow the codes
Even if the prisoners don't and
They don't care if you make it home
And yet you care if they make it there cell safe
But the ones you protect
Don't they don't seem to really appreciate
That your trying to keep them safe
Because I am the prison guard
I must be good
Beth Ann
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prisoner-victim-and-guard/
