There is a cage around me
Formed by other people’s opinions.
It is so thick, so hard,
And all that I can do to break free is to whittle away at it, little by little.
I yearn to be independent,
To be able to relax and be myself—whoever I choose that to be.
I just want to get out,
Out of this prison of an image that’s been created in other people’s minds.
It’s not my image,
Not a cage I created.
I set no boundaries for myself;
Yet somehow, in the busyness of life,
I have fallen prisoner to this reputation
And it has me locked inside of it.
I just want to revolt.
Why can’t we all revolt
And escape from these horrid prisons we put each other in?
Age14
Formed by other people’s opinions.
It is so thick, so hard,
And all that I can do to break free is to whittle away at it, little by little.
I yearn to be independent,
To be able to relax and be myself—whoever I choose that to be.
I just want to get out,
Out of this prison of an image that’s been created in other people’s minds.
It’s not my image,
Not a cage I created.
I set no boundaries for myself;
Yet somehow, in the busyness of life,
I have fallen prisoner to this reputation
And it has me locked inside of it.
I just want to revolt.
Why can’t we all revolt
And escape from these horrid prisons we put each other in?
Age14