I am an animal behind the bars
Not unlike the ones you see in the zoo
Only I lost my signboard

And I am lost without an address
Trapped like an insect under a mattress
Fluttering my wings from my place under a footrest

Hooting , hollering at the passers by ,
Hawking plastic smiles, pleasing and polite lies
Hemming and hawming the words where the truth hides

Howling like the wolves at times
Hissing like the snakes sometimes
Hysteric like no one’s known

Half the time I am shooing them away
Half the time I am begging them to stay
An aching heart hammering in it's cage

But it doesn't matter in the matter
Whatever I do or don't doesn't matter
It never matters ,
Cause it never have have mattered
In the end ,
As always they move on ,anyway


© myrottenpoetry_13