Doing Time

Doing time - it aint easy
You'll be far apart from the people who loves you
They'll miss the warmth of your warm smile
and your infectious laughter
The grace that follows every step when you step on the scene
Be it in their lives or even at the mall.
Through your own pain, you've been able to heal 'em.
Even for the hopeless, you always have a word
Hmmm, i guess that's history now
Doing time is far from home
Doing time is dark
You need not be on locked down to be doing time.
There need not be guns and guards round about your existence
Doing time starts right from our very minds
Its' poison's more potent than that of a rattle snake
and spreads faster than a cancerous cell
Doing time's cost us
Doing time will cost us
Doing time is all and every thing we don't need.
Doing time is all that makes the man in the mirror cringe.