These metal bars are all I see every day
Stuck behind them not matter what
The door will unlock and when it does I won't stay

Yet there is more to this cage than it seems
Not many can see what this cage really means

The key to the lock is coming into sight
Freedom, I want it, being stuck here isn't right

But beyond the cage that I am trapped inside
Another cage is within my sight

A cage within a cage, I'm trapped inside
But to get the key to that cage I will have to fight

Fight to break free from this prison, these walls
Do what I can to stop roaming empty halls

The first key is one that will come on it's own
Once I get the second key then I shall walk alone

But some believe that I will never get the second key
That I will be trapped in this cage and never be free

I want to fly, I want to be free
Why must everyone find it so hard to see?

How long will it take to get the second key?
Must I always be trapped, put down for being me?

I know I am different, and believe me, I try
To change so you will let me spread my wings and fly

Yet never once have you ever let me be
The best possible version of me

I will stay strong, I will not cry
I will show you that I am ready to fly

I know that I am not the only one
Everyone has been in a cage, plenty have done

The many things that they have tried to do
To break from this prison that they are in too

But most of the did not have at all
A cage like mine that is far too small

I have seen very few with a cage smaller than mine
But I can see empty cages as I look down the line

Some decided to pick the easy way out
Picking the lock and exploring all about

But they had options, they had friends
They had people who would help them until the end

I don't have that, I have to wait
Although many must have to debate

Whether or not I am lucky to have
The things that I get in this cage, should I be glad?

Never, not when the keepers of my cage
Are horrible, hissing, venomous snakes

Snakes with blue eyes are keeping me here
Whispering that I will come back into my ear

That when I leave then I will come back
Thinking that it will keep me from talking smack

But I know there tricks all too well
I will never go back to that cage of hell

Once I leave I will never look back
Even if I must get help I will never go back

Even if I struggle, even if things are worse
I will not go back to that cage curse

Those who have believed I will never get to leave
Say I will be stuck here forever they believe

But I don't want to stay, no matter the cost
If there is no other option then the rope is a must

I would rather die than stay in this hell
I must get away, and I know that they will tell

Others that I'm the bad guy, hating the cage so much
But they will never say how much I silently suffered as such

The snakes seem to be filled with greed
As they never talk about how much I bleed

But my vision could have blurred to the real sight
Of the snakes holding me captive in this night

They do give me gifts, they give me plenty
But perhaps they just do that so I'll stay another century

Each of the snakes is different inside
Both of them talking about my pride

One encourages me to write my feelings
To write them down in something

To write them the way that I have been
To write them in a poem once again

The other doesn't believe that I should write
About my feelings, about my conflict and strife

The other believes that I wrong in my writing
But they don't see what I am sighting

That actually is a lie because I know the truth
She doesn't want to hear the truth

I almost have the key to my smaller cage
I will finally be at least a little bit free from the rage

The rage that is from not following the rules
That one snake has hissed at me while using her tools

To keep me in for as long as she can
To make the cage smaller so that I can barely stand

But it's time that I make my stand
To get free from the second cage, it is what I demand

I will be trapped in the second cage for some time
But that will end soon as I really, truly try