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August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

The Padded Cell

I am inside a padded cell.
Its whereabouts, I can’t tell.
Trust me,
It’s like hell.

A place without any feelings
or any smell.
I have been here for a million years.
A place full of fears.

I’ve been punished hard,
as I am on The Joker’s Card.

Against me there are
so many charges.
When it comes to money,
I am incorruptible.
When I love, I love
with my full heart.

Now you know,
in this society,
I am not that smart.
There are no windows,
so I can’t watch the stars,
for obvious reasons my heart,
is full of scars.

I haven’t been sentenced to death.
I have been sentenced to life.
In this fragile system,
in this fake society,
in this dominating country,
in this cruel world.

I can hear The Joker,
laughing out loud.
His Insane and
evil laughs,
seems to me just
like a black cloud.

As his cell is just
beside mine.
I have no complaints,
I don’t whine.

Under the black cloud,
just like a silver lining,
I do shine.

They have imprisoned
my body,
but definitely
not my mind.

My mind is, indeed,
something.
To some people,
it may be nothing.
They don’t know
that, I am bluffing.
My mind is doing a lot
of stuffing.

I am here for some
unavoidable reasons.
But they won’t be
able to contain me here,
for seasons after seasons.

Deep Inside me,
a countdown timer
is ticking.
My prison break
will be so freaking.

I will be out,
what neither the inmates
nor the guards
got any damn clue about.

I am coming,
I will be out even
before The Joker.
They don’t give me
any stuff here,
I am a chain smoker.

As an Agent of Chaos,
I am fast and steady.
All The Agents of Orders,
Are you Ready?

Because Chaos starts,
just after Order.
And Just after Chaos,
the emerges Order.

I have dreamed of a world,
with not a single border.
When I break through,
there will be a
New World Order.

Author Bio

Wasim Hasan Mahmud

Wasim Hasan Mahmud is a Comics freak, who has written plenty of Comic Book reviews, book reviews. He has translated some brief comic issues but Comics is not the only genre of his writing prowess. He has written non-fiction columns on National Dailys, writing reviews on books of different genre is his passion. Once, he used to be a copywriter. The writer loves to explore different types of writing through his crafts. He is more of a reader though.

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