invisible in plain sight
church and state condemned
they stood cold and cruel
prisons posed as schools
innocence, identity
stolen by the celibate elite
the names evoke a curse
on children guilty of poverty
an army of ragged slaves
caged and condemned
worthless to society
but on each head a bounty
the gates to hell are guarded
by misled servants of christ
free blood
one scrawny boy returns a man
his nightmare is over
but the gulag still exists