If you have ever experienced un- directed restless energy, you know what this is about.

Savage Self

You prowl through life

like a caged animal

distressed

disturbed and

restless within.

Behind bars of iron

pacing and snarling

ears back

claws raking

angry within.

Lash out

with power

and rage

as though

to pierce the mere thin human skin

of your captor

would somehow succor

or

deliver peace within.

Yet whose wound are you licking

whose blood is dripping?

For who has put you in this cage

and to whose passions are you enslaved?