Cages
I close my heart to you and lock it in a cage,
A titanium one,
With no way to possibly open it.
Cages are for trapping and holding things prisoner.
I’m holding my heart prisoner,
Because it doesn’t know any better than to love.
It’s foolish,
And reckless to keep it free,
For it will soar away from me,
An untethered kite,
Ready to roam the skies.
And it will find itself in dangerous places,
Places where no refuge can be found.
I dislike it so,
For it has a mind of its own,
And it isn’t afraid to use it.
Birds fly around the cage,
Singing to it,
As if mocking it,
Because it is trapped.
I have swallowed the key to the cage,
And I don’t plan on giving it back any time soon.
My heart is adventurous,
Reckless,
And doesn’t listen to anything I tell it.
When it was free all it did was get its heart broken.
I grew sick of it doing what it wanted,
All the time,
So I imprisoned it,
Held it captive,
And I refuse to free it.
It grows angrier by the second,
Lashing out at the cage,
Doing everything in its might to break free.
I don’t let it get an edge though,
I keep it under my control,
But then one day my control slips.
The cage that I have put my heart in shakes with emotion,
And I feel something that I haven’t felt in a long time.
He seems different,
Sweeter,
Cuter,
Cooler,
Everything you aspired to be,
But could never achieve.
I cough up my key to my utter surprise,
And I feel this uncontrollable need to open the cage.
I try to shake the feeling away,
But it persists,
And gnaws away at me.
Before I know what I’m doing my hand has reached towards the cage,
And unlocked my heart.
It flies out,
And goes to him.
He catches it and smiles.
He says, “I’ll keep it safe.”
I believe him,
And when he kisses me I know I’ve done the right thing.
I should have never imprisoned my heart,
It needs to feel,
To love.
Above us a rainbow appears,
The calm after the storm,
The new beginning of a chapter,
Another chance at love.
A titanium one,
With no way to possibly open it.
Cages are for trapping and holding things prisoner.
I’m holding my heart prisoner,
Because it doesn’t know any better than to love.
It’s foolish,
And reckless to keep it free,
For it will soar away from me,
An untethered kite,
Ready to roam the skies.
And it will find itself in dangerous places,
Places where no refuge can be found.
I dislike it so,
For it has a mind of its own,
And it isn’t afraid to use it.
Birds fly around the cage,
Singing to it,
As if mocking it,
Because it is trapped.
I have swallowed the key to the cage,
And I don’t plan on giving it back any time soon.
My heart is adventurous,
Reckless,
And doesn’t listen to anything I tell it.
When it was free all it did was get its heart broken.
I grew sick of it doing what it wanted,
All the time,
So I imprisoned it,
Held it captive,
And I refuse to free it.
It grows angrier by the second,
Lashing out at the cage,
Doing everything in its might to break free.
I don’t let it get an edge though,
I keep it under my control,
But then one day my control slips.
The cage that I have put my heart in shakes with emotion,
And I feel something that I haven’t felt in a long time.
He seems different,
Sweeter,
Cuter,
Cooler,
Everything you aspired to be,
But could never achieve.
I cough up my key to my utter surprise,
And I feel this uncontrollable need to open the cage.
I try to shake the feeling away,
But it persists,
And gnaws away at me.
Before I know what I’m doing my hand has reached towards the cage,
And unlocked my heart.
It flies out,
And goes to him.
He catches it and smiles.
He says, “I’ll keep it safe.”
I believe him,
And when he kisses me I know I’ve done the right thing.
I should have never imprisoned my heart,
It needs to feel,
To love.
Above us a rainbow appears,
The calm after the storm,
The new beginning of a chapter,
Another chance at love.