Breaking Free

Locked box and chains
People are freed by rains
Though they seem to get wet
It’s just they forget
What it feels like to feel water on their skin
It pours on me so I just let it in
And it’s floods and its tears
And it’s years and years
In a cage of their making
But I’m not for the taming
As I bite back
I don’t want to attack
But I feel the fire burn
And I begin to learn
That keeping it in
Only creates hell within
I sit behind the curtain
And something’s hurting
So I glance past
The A’s I used to get in class
Always determined by someone else
Now they dictate my mental health
Set up archetypes
And ways I fail to be alright
Like grades on a paper
And he just wants to escape her
Though I don’t give it away
I just lie to myself anyway
And pretend that I can earth the ground
As they quench the sound
Of my fire burning
But the world’s turning
And every sun rotates
To burn on the line that equates
Itself with the midnight I’ve come to know
I just pray he does not let go
Before I get back to him
If I throw the game does he win?

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