The Cage

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs

Got time for a new idea in blogging?  

I have a triplet of posts that I want you to read. 

The first one is a poem/prose from my blog site The Cage.

And then, from Morning Notes 

you’ll find this – The Cage – a post offering 

hope and encouragement.

And finally, from Internet Church – we find 

When the Cage Door Opens – 

offering hope from God’s word.  

I liked this idea, thanks to Seth Godin’s book 

What to Do When It’s Your Turn.  

The basic idea is Seth’s, but wrapped in my words, 

and inspiration from The Bible.

I hope you read all three.  I especially hope you share 

at least one of them with someone 

who might feel caught in some kind of trap 

and need to find an escape.  Enjoy.

It was a trap, that old cage

A trap that soon became a stage

Some called that trap old age

And they pranced and danced upon that stage

I’m 22, I’ll act my age

I’m 42, I love my age

I’m 72, I’m trapped in my cage

I can’t do what I want as a person of my age

My cage keeps me safe

It keeps me in

Yet it keeps everything else out

Without a doubt

Before my cage I had freedom

I made choices

It protected me, no doubt

And kept everything else out

Even my freedom to go and be

To adventure, dream and see

That was before I entered my cage

I long for the days when I could choose

Free from this cage of safety and security

I could roam, climb, dream, lose

In whatever pursuits I dared to choose

So, I live out my days in a cage of my choosing

I whisper my musings

And what I’ve lost and am losing

Not much is amusing in this cage of my choosing

Mostly I miss my right to be choosing

The life I might find amusing