when i woke yesterday

first poem

When I woke yesterday

I found myself locked

In a cage that was made

Out of each of my bones

Tied together by a string

That when I looked closer

I saw was my hair.

My hair and my bones locked me into my cage.

And the key

Where was it?

Inside of me

I held the key to my freedom

But if I could grab it

I would have to rip through my skin.

And my heart

Just to find the key

That keeps me locked inside myself.

I would have to fold

Inside out

Just to reach the key

Just to let myself free of myself.

I saw people on the other side of my cage

But when I called out

I realized that the bones

Were too close together

For sound to penetrate

And my voice went unheard.

I wouldn’t let myself speak.

I was locked in myself

Soul free

But lost in a cage.

And when I finally

Couldn’t stand my isolation

Any longer

I ripped into myself

But the key had disappeared.

It was too late, you see

I was locked in myself

Trapped in myself

It was I who had lost the key.

Because when lips go unused

They disappear

When a heart goes unused

It breaks

And the key within it disintegrates

Because the key knows

That if the carrier is dead

It has no more reason

To live

 

 

Author's Note

2nd posting, hurray for restoration!

Reviews

[Carlee]

The awesomeness of this poem can not be shown in mere words 0_0 I think a lot of us feel this way, trapped by ourselves though unable to get out. This is something thats very personal but a lot of people can relate to ^^ YAY.

[Andromeda]

i really like the concept of this.

[Erin Sky]

woah! This amazing, especially for a first time! I think there was typo in line 7 - I think it should read "I saw it was my hair"? But, yeah, very cool. Props!