Hunger

Caged desires that quietly unchain the soul
even when life has imprisoned with a tyrannical keeper,
insides ravenous ready to taste the air of liberty,
passions lick the dream of reliance’s sky,
unwilling to accept placation’s bananas for a diet,
which never appeases freedom’s hunger.

The sleeping simian snared in circumstance’s cell
awakening subtly to face realty with defiance and determination
spreading through the mind and heart to never surrender
becoming a witness to the minions sharing the misery
that at times going ape is truly natural for a famished appetite
keeping alive the spirit of oneness
no matter the cruelties served upon the moment.