The middle door slid open with a gentle ping,

I silently entered the top security wing.

I could see down the corridor a silver lift door,

Red alarm tracer’s spider webbed the floor.

Pressing a button on a flashing electronic card,

Red alarm tracers vanished I was no longer barred.

Generators hummed like ships engines near heating pipes,

I tripped out the current of the red security lights.

Inserting a key into the vault lock,

There was a comforting click as the door unlocked.

At least two boring hours must have passed,

But now my bag was full at long last.

Glass cutter removes the ground window pain,

I slip out quietly into the nights rain.

Far away I hear the police sirens wine,

My crime discovered but the loot was mine.

Catching a plane abroad in the sun,

I escape a jewel thief forever on the run.