Ocean Within a Cage

gentle streams drip out leaking from my cage as i lay there emotions raining across the floor love evaporating to salt stains and i’m falling an ocean opened beneath me anything to escape, i dive down and sink arms wrapped around my shoulders the tides reclaim me as my eyes have borne them the saltwater washes against my face cold and rough my thoughts fade and my eyes open. i’m still there. within a prison of iron all that’s left of the ocean is a puddle on the floor.