Society likes to lie to me

Lure me to cages

Take my book of life and rip out all its pages

It's as untouchable as a ghost

It's a ghost with many faces

It shows up in the safest of places

Haunting our home

Possessing our closest of friends’ hearts mind and soul

It's a finger shaking no

The voice in our ear whispering

"let it go"

The monster under our beds

Keeping us from sleep

Keeping us from realizing our larger than life dreams

It's the vibration after being trapped in a spider’s web

It's the shouts
The screams

Echoing rejection in our heads

Imagination completely neglected till' it's gone and fled

It's telling us what life's supposed to be about

but...

I'm getting older now

The dark is more inviting now than frightening

Don't ask me how but it seems my chains are

snapping
bending
breaking

I fear no ghost
no monster
no lack of safety

I take my chances
Take my stances
Take my life back and they call it madness

Well...

Now society's scared me

Scared that I'll grow up to be the best that I can be

Scared that I have broken free

Set out to change society and all its hypocrisy and greed

They tell me it's impossible but just you wait and see