Feel like I'm caged
With my wings clipped
And mouth tied!
Anyone can't hear
My muffled cries
And those faint clinking sounds!
They want me to change
When I'm being myself.
I know they won't understand me,
But I bear their every word!

Sometimes I wonder,
From where have I got
This much of self-control!
They don't know,
How much they hurt me!
How much they break me!
'Cause it doesn't matter
To them anyways...

Sometimes I wonder,
Why didn't they snatch
My breath away, yet!
'Cause that's the
Only thing they didn't
Do with me, yet!
At the end of all
These thoughts, pain
And so much of crying,
I realize that
I only have me to myself!

✍ Pearl