My heart aches,
A call to the wild,
That waits just beyond my reach.

It beckons with a vengeance,
That my soul cannot ignore,
I must find it.

I seek blindly,
My arms outstretched,
A plea for help,

I gasp with a need to breath,
My lungs burn,
The world spins.

The enemy is fast approaching,
A dark knight on a stallion,
The bearer of death.

My body struggles,
Wanting to live,
But I am dragged down.

There is no escape,
A wall forms on each side,
I am trapped in a gilded cage.

Still reaching for the wild,
My heart stops beating,
And I fade from existence.