The Cage

By Joseph McGowan

Don’t run away. Come here. Come closer. See, I’m not a freak.
I’m human, just like you. Step right up and take a peek.
Come watch me like an animal in the zoo in my cage.
You stare at me from behind glistening metal as I unleash my rage.

No mortal chains can hold me down as I fly free into the air,
Only gravity to contend with, for I have a leash on my fear.
Concentration in my eyes not unlike a cornered beast
As I cut my line into the wall not on flesh, but on air I’ll feast.

Still, you watch me through the cage and are amazed as I’m floating in the air
Daring to defy gravity then falling back to earth, you gasp with primordial fear.
Sometimes crashing back to Earth yet to always rise again,
Shaking off the pain, for pain is no one’s friend

Now you see I am not a freak. I bleed just like you.
Scarred and bruised this mortal flesh now turns black and blue.
Yet the friends I make are there for me in my time of need.
They’re here to push me higher, not to mend the cuts that bleed.
The session’s on, as you watch me through the cage
Like an animal, I feel so alive as I unleash my rage.
Don’t run away, come here, come closer, see I’m not a freak
I’m human just like you. Step right up and take a peek

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