We are all animals in cages.

Animals in cages.

That is all we are.

Day by day,

Week by week,

A lifetime of days and weeks goes by.

And still we remain

Trapped by our blindness.

Life outside the cage is uncertain

and therefore unwelcome.

There must be more than this cage.

There is more.

I have glimpsed life outside these barred walls.

I have smelt the fresh air, clean and free.

There are whispers of freedom.

Freedom from the cages.

Freedom from the decay that haunts me.

I must escape

The decay that suffocates me.

I must give up certainty

I must live.