It's raw I know. I'm going to eventually enter it in my school's poetry collection so review and let me know what needs some work or point out what's good.

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“The Cage”

The man looks back on his life.

What chances he passed up,

What fears kept him behind these bars.

His comfort zone was a cage

And he became a slave.

Never breaking from the cage,

Never going to the unknown.

Always behind his cage.

His master was Fear,

And Fear held the key.

The poor old man looks back on his life,

He never did anything,

He never went anywhere.

He thought he was making his own decisions,

And thought he could play it safe.

Little did he know,

He was a slave to Fear and inside his cage,

Fear laughed at his face.

No more chances does he have.

His life is over,

His cage is all that he has left.

He wants to get out,

Oh but he can’t.

Fear holds the key,

and the poor old man never did conquer Fear.

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