caged up
New York - 2015
I’ve been caged up in this body
I used to think I owned.
I used to think a lot of things
until I met him.
My visions became distorted
and he infiltrated my mind
with thoughts of monogamy.
I used to ridicule those women
who went on living their days
and their nights
with one man.
Until I became
one of those women.
I became
one of those
reserved play-it-safe
women
who settled too soon.
I was happy for a little
while but just about everyone knows
you cannot escape your thoughts.
He could not erase that battle
inside of me
between wanting to love
every inch of him
and wanting to love
every inch of myself.
