Mind's Cage

I throw myself

Back n' forth

Inside my own mind's cage.

My brain erupts, painfully

With familiar, senseless rage.

My soul it bleeds with boredom

While searching for escape.

Confusion, illusion, searching

How can I escape this cage?

I plunge into the shadow,

Drink of the wine of madness,

Destroy all that is within.

I glimpse…

The edifice burning to the ground,

yet reassembles in seconds,

In an act of defiant survival.

I'm free to go when I please

No bars keep me from free land.

Yet still I remain in the grips

Of a captor which hath no hands.