Did you ever feel like you had
a ravenous wolf inside?
With a growling, empty stomach
that could not be satisfied?

Did you ever feel like you had
a wounded deer inside?
With a heart torn open,
apart a mile wide?

Did you ever feel like you had
a caged lion inside?
You couldn't unleash your anger
so was it tears that you cried?

Did you ever feel like you had
a lurking bear inside?
Your guts upside down in knots
but to the world you said, "I'm fine"?

Does the world ever feel like a zoo,
the bars containing you on the outside?
Can we smugly think we are lords of this earth
when restlessly struggles the beast inside?