Caged

Emo poem. There's nothing more I can say. It's about how people only make fun of others because they don't know them well enough.

Caged
I trapped your laughter one day,

Caught sight of my name in it.

Felt separate, lost, misunderstood.

And so i thrash this poem at you.

You don't know me.

Enough pretending you do.

Just tear up my labels and stereotypes

helpless, tossing, fallen.

Unfurl the straightjacket of my emotions,

punctuate every ill-begotten happiness with

nodules of desperation and hysteria.

Wrench my very being, heart and soul

As roots claw to break free of past regrets

And then tell me you know me.

Cause until then,

You have caged me,

helpless, tossing, fallen.