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Engaged In Cage

Engaged In Cage Cage comes with captured thoughts from well inside Spirits paint it green with envy Screams leave their marks on wires Shake it. It still remains Bars measured to contain Rain can only rust so much As cage takes on the gray of days But still remains inside with pain decaying Wires, bars, measured to fit just right To capture thoughts Emotions form with pride that needs to die Boxed in from all six sides Bars that hold no reason but holds you Pins you in from the beginning No rising from the dirt or earth with an opinion You must be held on this small island Accountable to become the cage before all else Before you become yourself Live out your days with you and it together Contained, removed from all external life No one the wiser Not even water for your pleasure Cage and you remain together as one entity If you simply become the cage And stop all this There would be no misery Engage the cage Be one with it

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 7/26/2014 4:58:00 AM
potential here! What I don't see is the other side of what you mean. Sure there is the cage and we are to conform by accepting it but what is the cage exactly? Society?, the law?, what God has given us?
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Earl Schumacker
Date: 7/26/2014 11:17:00 AM
Good afternoon Karl Thank you so much for your interest. I am a very simple basic man. I bring things down to their bare bones and simple rawness. Nature is a cage. Our mortality is a cage. Our minds, etc. The cage and occupant,( tangibles) meld into one. Emotions, screams, (intangibles), merge as well. Thank you for your astute observations. Earl
Date: 7/25/2014 10:26:00 PM
A very complex write that pictures prisons of the mind ! I say bravo, as it stirs the mind to ponder life's complexity and inner workings..
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Earl Schumacker
Date: 7/26/2014 12:42:00 AM
Good morning Robert, Thank you so much for your well thought out response and interest in the cage and the caged one. Have a great day. Earl
Date: 7/25/2014 9:46:00 PM
this is one to really think on. I think I might understand and then again, not sure. In any event. Very nice, and thinking "outside the cage!!"
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Date: 7/26/2014 12:51:00 AM
Hi Andrea. I'm glad you liked it. It is simply a man and his cage and a cage with its man. There are some layered concepts going on also; freedom, identity, slavery, oppression, the mind, the human condition, etc. You know, the usual stuff. Thank you for your kind words. Take care. Earl

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