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Book 22 Page 5

Institutionalized

Institutionalized,

once anonymous.

Once a upon a time could cope,

now private details

under microscope.

Now details of behavior,

on a file.

Living in;

an institutionalized

style.

Money metered,

for survival dependent.

Dependent on decisions

of;

the government.

Some live,

since the day their born,

living between government rules

and

‘freedom’ torn.

And through out the world

more and more

become tied.

More and more people,

institutionalized.

Original peoples,

people on pensions,

societies rejects.

Living under a government's

helping project.

No where to go,

playing a

bureaucratic game.

Still have to choose institutionalization over starvation

just the same.

Being part of

a institutionalized regime,

where near every part of your life is,

over seen.

Overseen and scrutinized,

institutionalized.

 © Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 6/19/00