The Self-Made Prisoner-The Importance of Attitude
Once there was a prisoner
caged within a city.
The townspeople would walk by,
and they would stare at him in pity.
As a stranger I approached him
and asked him of his fate.
He said, "There was no crime,
but let me tell you who I hate:
I can trace all of my problems
right up my family tree.
My circumstances and other people
are why I am not free.
So I sit here in this prison,
hoping for the day,
when I'm the one outside this cage,
and they're the ones who pay!
Until then I'll keep waiting,
for someone to let me out.
Someday it will happen,
of that I have no doubt."
It was then when I looked down
and could finally understand.
The keys to this man's prison
were right there in his hand.
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