They tell you what they expect They dole out rules and demands When your heart starts to grow empty You warn them of what damage they have done You try to keep your heart together as they treat you like your dumb. A piggy bank of sorts As they become nice when pay day, for you, arrives. You know for at least a few days you can be treated right Until they go back to "over-drill" I feel like a cadet in the army The drill Sergent expects I deliver I try to find my own way The drill Sergent demands that you know that you will not make it... Not in the war.... So you feel rage for them inside However, your Spirit, above revenge, ceases the calls of your pride. For years you've failed to become more than what you are A Caterpillar wishing to become the butterfly.. Held back from the stresses of trying to escape the captivity You sleep on eggshells just the same as you walk As you are heckled, hard, when you try to free your pain through creativity. Maybe the sun ,some day, will open those controller's eyes So, they can become more than what they are, a "Drill Master" And see the errors of harden ways Stop the opression And fly with you enjoying freedom's skies.