[Pent uP]

Why The Caged Birdman Sings

Lonliness is an empty vessel
- because it floats better.
Without hope tethered or the sense to know whether
you could say ignorance leads a fresh batch of go-getters.
That is to say an empty home is unafraid of home wreckers.
Oppression is a vessel of friction
- unsettled condition.
One rug-burned knee touching down on the wrestlers victim.
Relentless and vicious
- a true king sleeps on the feathers of chickens...
And caged birdmen have been plucked into a steady diminish.

Anxiety is a means to oppress.
Those who have it avoid being direct.
Overworked nerves burst from the first pleas for respect
- every one after the fact keeps the body pleading for death.
Not a literal shut down, just a feeling expressed
as micro, or macro, and conceived in the flesh.
Internal turmoil makes the cold cage welcoming.
They could lock themselves in and still wont hate everything.
Interactions have a cycle of laugh, cry, rotate specimen
to create memories for a no-brained elephant.
The soul stays menacing
for better or worse, because most prey was a predator first.
The battle for survival is a bloodlust whos victory is met with a thirst.
Enough folks are cut-throat without being your own enemy,
but we're stuck with self deprecation conceding to known levity.
We're dreaming to show empathy because the feeling is so leveling
but when we open our mouth to speak; the speech is bellowed trembling.

Society riles up the anxious by nature.
Masked mouths chasing the paper -
While employers demand that we save
....conversations for later.
Silent looks are exchanged for a favor and texting is hailed as our savior.
The metaphor is simple - there's no assailant or hater

The cage is behavior.