Caged

I sit and wonder by and by, how I can make my time just fly, my mind
reels as my heart peels away the layers upon layers of protection from
the world. My life goes by as I try and try to let myself be known. I
hate to hide, I hate to lie, but I do what I must to save life. I try so
hard to let them know, but I just can't let them know. My life it fades
and fades away, never letting in the rays. My loved ones just won't
understand what kind of trivia I am in. They don't know and they don't
care even though I sit and stare. I stare and stare and yet they just
don't fucking care. I put on masks and costumes, so maybe they won't
notice, but all my efforts dig me deeper in this void. This void is
life, this void is me, nothing I do lets me free. The cage is locked and
welded shut, though my eyes soar so free, I'm trapped behind the bars of
life, never to be let free. I yearn and yearn for a breath of life, only
to get strangled more. This life can't last much longer I fear, my
life's end is drawing near. I feel it fade and slip away, like air that
passes by.

Penned by my hand on the 24th of Glacian, in the year 372 AF.