Scatterbrained 5

She doesn't even have any room to breathe.

Well, she's got some, 

but not much--

just a little jail cell window

with fresh air that comes through,

yet is quite close to the ceiling,

so it's unreachable.

And this inmate was meant to be released last year!

Crying shame, it is.

Though, 

she's made the best of it,

and often forgets that she's even bound up.

But, 

every once in a while,

she looks up and sees those gray, lonely walls,

as cruel as they are familiar.

She takes a good, hard look at 'em,

cries a tear or two,

then reminds herself 

that she's stuck for a reason,

even if she has no clue what the reason may be.

And again,

she goes back to making the best of things,

hopeful and longing

for what the future might bring...

Freedom?

Maybe.

But maybe

not.

A lesson?

(that can only be learned

by solitary confinement?

I've never heard of such thing).

But she tells herself 

there is such a thing.

And she goes on believing...