Sitting within your cage
Wrapped in your bandages of ignorance
Duct tape with hearts drawn on them
Crisscross across your eyes
Headphones screaming pep talks
Of how great the world is
Cover your ears
The bandages that encase
Your entire body
Wrap around your mouth
Pressing lips to teeth
Teeth to tongue
And tongue to jaw
So that no words can come out
Are you happy being in that cage?
Are you happy never seeing, hearing, or saying

Anything?

You could easily break free
Of the jail that

You

Have created
These bandages were wound tight
By your own hands so you
Wouldn't have to see the world
Wouldn't have to realize
That pain does exist
Happy endings rarely happen
And death is just a footstep away

But you won't
You would rather be ignorant
Than see what is truly around you
To block out the pain
You must also block out the beauty
So frightened in your little cell
Covered with your cowardliness
Like a small child
Afraid of the monster
Under the bed
You run away
Because you can't accept
That children are starving to death
That innocent people are killed
By someone who doesn't accept
Their religion
That someone who dares love
Another person of the same sex
Will be ostracized
That the pain you know is nothing
Compared to the pain that some
Have suffered through

War is happening
Disease is happening
Murder is happening
Suffering is happening
The world does not have peace
The world cries out at the pain
That its loved inhabitants suffer
But it cries even more
Over people like you
Who sit and smile in their cells
Of disregarding ignorance
Who wrap themselves up
With protective seals
So they won't have to worry
About the pain that happens outside

You are one who

Sees

Hears

Speaks

No truth

But do you care?
Would you really free yourself?
I look at the world
And am forced to say
With a horrible feeling of grief
That I don't believe
You ever will