It's been a while since a poem was posted. Just made this poem, so it's likely bad, lol.
- Shay (They/it) 🐾
Tw/cw: animal abuse (not mentioned by name), biting, scratching, growling, and hissing. [Not sure if all of these need warnings, but they are there, so yeah].
We are caged like
Dangerous wild animals.
We are chained up like
Aggressive tamed animals.
Not wild and not tamed.
We bite at the cage
And the chains
Hoping it would help
Us get free from them.
Not wild and not tamed.
We growl as people get close
To our cage and our chains.
We hiss as they get closer
To our cage and our chains.
Not wild and not tamed.
We are caged and chained up
To protect others from us.
However, it doesn't protect
Us from ourselves.
Not wild and not tamed.
We aren't safe from ourselves.
We bite and scratch ourselves.
To feel something other than
The fear and anger that comes from being
Not wild and not tamed.