38 Days in Prison

I wanted to love and be loved,

I wanted fairy tales to be true,

I believed in normal functional families

who helped and supported each other to become better beings,

I thought employers had the interests of their employees in mind,

I thought industries were there to aid towards the goodwill of all mankind,

I believed religion to be righteous and true,

I believed education was for the betterment of humanity,

I thought welfare organisations were there for the causes they represented,

I believed what was told to me, by my elders, my parents, my friends, the words of strangers,

I believed in the intent behind the restoration of wrongs committed,

I believed in a selfless, caring, honest, kind and truthful humanity,

I believed justice always prevails,

I believed light always triumphed over darkness,

I believed in happy endings,

a lot of this has changed and I am mourning the demise of what I believed the world to have been.