A Cage We Call Society

Surviving this world

Is surviving an unending race

With an extremely skewed starting pool

Stereotypes define our societal pillars

They create barriers. 

Barriers that are a vice around the heart. 

Around the mind. 

They grip you, 

they pull you down. 

Expectations. 

Disappointment. 

Ideals. 

So many standards. 

Society is the cage for every human being.

Women are riddled with doubt.

Doubt that is sewn into the very fabric of the ideals of the world.

Society defines us as weak. 

As inferior.

We conform.

Men are riddled with pressure

They don a thousand masks.

Don’t crack.

Don’t ruin the facade.

Never share your pain.

It is weak.

They conform. 

Weakness. 

Power. 

One born into power, 

One born into suppression

Neither has a voice

A way out of this prison

We advocate for change

To advance society

But too much of our society has been constructed on a weak foundation

Too many of us are still

Bound

To society’s prison of power