Trapped

12/08/2020 -  Poem a Day Compilation



I am trapped.

Caught between

Obligation and

A freedom that

Seems to be

Just out of reach.



I am cornered

By a family

Who loves me

For who they think

I am but not who

I am on the inside.



I am besieged

By emotions I

Shouldn’t have to fight

But cannot quell

And leave me

Bereft of strength.



I am stranded

And alone

In this world

Of make believe

That I have discarded

As a folly of youth.



I am held hostage

By beliefs not my own

But foisted upon me

By generations

Of unquestioning

Devotion.