My heart is merely a cage, For everything I wish to jail there. Some of its prisoners will never leave for they are content; While I pray that some never escape to face me. Safely, my God stays there protected for the outside world, Protecting me because I know he is always there. While commonly my sympathy escapes and runs freely- To freely for some who might call me overly sentimental. My courage, is not what it should be Because I have never been able to gather it all... Yet. Captured!, is the rage of a teen in anguish, which has resided there for far too long But I can't deal with it now, Even though my heart is hindered by it so.. And in the corner is a lavished cell Always kept ready, For the day I may capture love. My heart is merely a cage, In simpler terms A steel wire frame Battered and bruised,from the world I live in, and all it's pain, But is not yet broken, Because it is held together by the strength of hope.