Life in a Cage Please let me spread my wings and let me fly… Let me soar and experience the heavens up high… Let me take some trips and journeys alone… So that I should feel how it is to live beyond my home… Open the door of this little gilded cage… Please let me have my moments of self…. A few stolen minutes to be myself… When I can let my guard down and lose control, No one to agree with, nothing to conform to, no one to live for… Lend me the time, give me the key to this gilded cage… Please let me have my walks alone… So I can see a glimpse of the world on my own… Maybe enjoy the view of the skies through my eyes.. And feel the rain on my face and have my cries… I beg for space, time to be mine, away from this gilded cage… Please let me have my dreams and fantasies, These visions and hopes I still have in my mind… That is where they lay, deep in thought, hard to find… Please let them stay with me, let them live in my heart…. That is the only place I have, not a part of this gilded cage…. Please let me go, even if it is only a reverie… Let me have my escape, away from reality… So that I shall have lived, however minutely…. So that I shall have been to myself, however sparingly… So that I shall have been free, outside of this cage, however, briefly… Danielle McHenry I shall always be here… I need to live my dream… I will never be away from you, I need to be free enough to be me…
Reason for writing:
In a stifling moment....where i felt too many strings tugging. Feeling I had too much responsibilities in my life. Fleeting yes, but still sometimes it gets to be too much and I want to take flight and live outside of my known life.
Birth sign: Aquarius
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