A panoply, a zoo, an entire ecosystem imprisoned until you.
Let the lion roar
Let the birds soar
Let the horses gallop across the fields
Let go the guards and all the shields
Let the walls of Jericho fall down
When the music and shouts surround-
Let the caged bird fly free
Because you unravel me.
Sometimes I feel toxic
A whole storm of emotions, I'm chaotic
Mixed feelings, I keep them in a bag
I hide what's inside 'cause it's just sad.
The eyes are the window to the soul, mine are more open than most
I find it hard to look you straight in the eyes
Look more closely and you'll realize
I'm not whole.
I'm only half a person
Had an illness that lobotomized my brain
After that I was never the same
And I'm still hurtin'
Still finding my purpose,
Is life worth it?
I don't deserve this
Thoughts and memories get twisted in my mind
All the anxieties wait for me in line
I lock up my true feelings, shove them on the shelf,
But they keep on getting out somehow, what the hell
An entire ecosystem lives inside this shell
I keep waiting to let it out as soon as I get well
First, a hummingbird, gentle as a flower,
wings humming like little heartbeats many times an hour
Second, a newborn foal, kicking and running all around, so droll
Third, a lioness, full of mischief and defiance-
And all the hungry contrasting desires
Some full of life, some funeral pyres
Become weak and emaciated
When I don't let them speak;
So under-appreciated
It's a panoply, a zoo,
an entire ecosystem imprisoned until you
So let the lion roar,
and let the birds soar,
and let the horses gallop across the fields
Let go the guards and shields!
I'm scared of vulnerability
But let the caged bird fly free
Because you unravel me.
There's a riddle in these rhymes
Can you read between the lines?
vulnerability.
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Author:
Rose of Sharon (
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- Published: April 26th, 2025 18:40
- Category: Love
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- Users favorite of this poem: Tristan Robert Lange
Comments2
A most interesting read a menagerie of animals all to be freed. Are these elements of us that we need to free? A wonderful puzzle.
Thank you! I like the idea of every person containing an inner landscape that can be symbolized with different aspects of nature; the first sentence in your comment also rhymes which is cool 😎
A wonderful read filled with animals galore. This fine piece, my friend, is a magical riddle (vulnerable as I was trying to figure it out 😉🙃) and it is one heck of a write. An immediate fave. 🌹👏
Thank you very much! 😁 I wanted to leave it open-ended for the reader to decide but one interpretation could be the lion representing darker/toxic traits, the other animals representing more gentle and innocent emotions, but it all festers when we lock them up inside, like animals sometimes do in captivity 🦁 🐴 🦅
Indeed! You are most welcome.
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