It's clear and empty inside from what I can see

Lifting my fingers out in front of me

Smooth, cold glass greets my finger tips

Sending shivers up my arms with my heart beating in skips

A cube that doesn't move to its other side

I sit here watching the world go by

On stage, people expressing their art with joy

While I watched in my own little world, in a unforeseeable void

Thinking and wondering when it would be my time to confide

In my dreams and desires that want to fly high

They told me what I should know

It was as if they expected me to never grow

“Sit inside and be a good girl”

“Keep in what one wouldn't want to see whirl”

“You need to be pure in the world of bad”

“Its what's best, so don't be sad"

These ideas were shoved inside

Never letting me get the chance to do something I had never tried

Giving me the things they thought I needed

But not something I would have cried for, even pleaded

I have grown since then

Proof by the fact that this cage is less than willing to bend

I can't always be here

I need to experience the world and be me, without fear

It was time to get out

And the only way I thought of but knew I couldn't dwell on about

Taking a breath, I pull back my fist

Throwing it out with all the strength I hadn't known to exist

I hear an ear piercing crack

Now wasn't the time to hold back

Pushing onto the glass with all my might

I felt it push away, but not without a fight

“I won't let you control me anymore”

I speak softly, but from deep within my core

Bursting forth into the world that seemed new and yet familiar

I grab the lone microphone on the stage knowing there was something I must deliver

Light shimmering from above

Heat finally hugging me close and snug like a little glove

Nerves piling inside my tummy

My fear of letting go of my insecurities it wasn't funny

Time to show the world around me

That I was proud of my self expression through art and music, as a human being

Opening my mouth to express

Even if my voice left little to impress

It carries over the sea of faces

All staring at me in uncertain hazes

Its my time to shine

I have to voice what my heart wants to define

Who I have become

No longer confined being cold and numb

I have finally spoken

And its all because my glass box was always meant to be broken