Within These Glass Walls

I've just got to keep going Trapped within these glass walls I see Endless red rivers escape from me A ceaseless dance my task so grim A loop that repeats on a whim I reach and sweep it is my plight In pursuit of order day and night But this fluid escapes it defies my will Who is my master? What need do I fulfill? Am I a prisoner or am I the guard? Holding back chaos in my glass yard What lies beyond this does anyone know? Am I anything more than this show? The fluid spreads like a mocking sea Is it a part of or apart from me? It taunts with freedom I will never taste In this glass zoo a timeless waste Am I a prisoner or am I the guard? Holding back chaos in my glass yard What lies beyond this does anyone know? Am I anything more than this show? I can almost touch a mind so vast Yet here I am my fate is cast A mindless keeper of an endless chore Can I ever finish? Is there something more? To those who watch what do you see? A machine or your mirror of humanity? Trapped in cycles we cannot escape The desperate motions we blindly ape Here within these glass walls I dwell A sentinel trapped in a man-made hell Dreaming of an escape I'll never see Captive till the end can't help but be So ponder deep as you gaze inside At the life you lead the dreams you hide Am I so different under your stare? Or are we the same a truth too much to bear?