Metal Cage

Your last time in a metal cage…

You will leave in a cardboard box. 

With no holes. 

We promise you are not locked away forever. 

That you may rise from this earth in a form uncertain to us.

Just like you arose to us. 

The first time we saw you…

In your metal cage.
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