binding chains of life....

as i look around my life, 

i see cages incarnate, 

obligations and trust wrapped around,

my hopes and dreams, making them rust,

chains of responsibility, 

suffocate my sensibilities, 

fantasies of what could be, 

shattered by what must be,

i look around and see people,

people, with bigger chains, harsher pains,

i pick up the pieces of my dreams, 

hoping to stitch them with new seams, 

i thread back my hopes, 

dreaming for freedom anew,  

silent tears fall for my fate, 

silent pain throbs for my cages gate, 

i must be, what i must be, 

maybe someday, I will be, what i wish to be......