"Please... Help me escape this reality and take me away;
So far away, send me to the world of fantasy. "

"Give me a door to the world of illusion, please..."

"Send me there, in hopes that I  find something that could fill that dissatisfied void inside of me,"

I'm such a coward. Who knew I had such feeble feelings?

Things like this aren't so necessary, right;?

Daydreaming is all I had;
And there's something I wanted to reach so bad.

I clutch onto the bars that keep me isolated. I see that ray of light;
it was merely inches away, yet it feels like miles apart from me.

Should I go and grasp for it?

Escape this prison of my mind and live in a life full of satisfaction?

Or will this thinking even get me far?

What if I failed?

Who will come to my rescue?

Who will save me from drowning in an ocean with no water as air stopped flowing down my lungs?

Can this heaviness be lifted?
This void within my chest?

If I was set free, who will accompany me in a vast world like this?

With this coop of thought that I have;
I'm no better than that person who was in a room with no doors, just four corners.

The door to freedom opened,
Yet there he still remained,
For the will to fly has atrophied,
And the bird is finally caged.

Up in windows
Sways a birdcage
with a tweety-bird
singing to the cat so far below
with it's taunting song
it sings a song of tease
as the cat chirps back
claiming it's treat

The bird so high and mighty
does not consider the cat
to be more than a worm
but the cat
just sees a snake that can fly
a meal for the mites

Body aching
Eyes dark and drooping
So much writing, thinking
To do.
The sky grows darker out my window
You say you worry, because you still obviously care.

The truth of it all
Is that despite my convincing, my deep loving
Because when I invest, I invest my hardest
I like me better
Without you underneath me.

But we acknowledge there is tension
We text drunkenly at times
We miss and wish we could kiss
Away the marks we left behind.

But a new moment here
A new experience there
I should really drag myself out for that run.

Chicago moves and booms
With everything happening so fast
So intensely
I keep up, sleeping so little so little
But you wanna lecture me and say
That you still care baby.

Lets do indeed,
Toast to us and all the things
We could never be
Thank you for teaching me
And making me a better me
In the end,
With your romantic exit.

But I love you, I do
And my heart has a slight cut
On the right tip
From where you supported
Listened
Held me when I was lost
But in the end
I'm the only one who can free me
From this beautiful, white picket fenced
Bird cage.

In my chest there is a bird
Who's fluttering spurs all my words
A muffled song her sorrows sing
In ribcage trapped a fragile thing
My body is a birdcage

And butterflies, those wicked things
They dart around on razor wings
My insides now all ribbons be
My body is a birdcage

Translucent skin on hallow bones
And as time goes emptiness grows
A song once sung now no one knows
My body is a birdcage

Now windswept ribs begin to bleach
Sandshifted joints begin to preach
The heavens high a bird does reach
From what was once a birdcage

You can't forever be as free as a bird because there is always a cage waiting for you.