Publish Date: 10/22\03

A/N: This has a lot of personal meaning – take what you want from it, but I got all of the lines to be exactly ten beats. Go me.

Title: Cages

We are hiding deep scars that live within,
Construct a cage so that no one gets in.
Broken dolls of a childhood so long past,
Now and then a strong startling contrast.
Quick hit him hard and show him to the door,
Let him out in to the dead corridor.
Bolt it up and block out his crying screams,
Forever isn't as long as its seems.
The breath you forgot to take long ago,

Still sticks in your throat as you go below.
Faery tales that are made to be broken,
By the hard rushed words that I have spoken.
So take your needles and then take your pins,
You take your time to repent from your sins.
Build your cage of cold wires and metal bars;
Try to hide the misshapen pale scars.
Lose yourself in a world that's all yours,
Your imagination geared to obscure.
The solitude, to which you are devout,
You are marked by a sign that reads: keep out.
So as I hide inside my self-built cell,
The frigid hallow grave in which I dwell.
I wipe away my silent bloody tears,
And I swear never to allow you near.
For the second chance that will never come,
Isn't the only thing that keeps you from.
This cage that is built around me right now,
Is the reason that you are not allowed.

A/N: Reviews welcome, constructive criticism craved, flames ignored.