From within you,
There’s this…this creature
That begs and pleads to be released
Suppressing it with your hate and negativity,
It cowers away in fear of the future
This ‘cage’ of ill-emotion can only contain the creature for so long

With each passing day, the creature grows
It feeds from your fear and procrastination
And will not be denied
In your subconscious mind, you know this,
However, the shocking fact means nothing in the situation you are currently enveloped in
The situation is like waiting to die for hours on end in excruciating pain and loathing
And the creature knows this
It loves this…

Unknown to you,
Is the simple fact that the creature will grow too large for its cage
One day…
One day it will find a way out
One day it will find a way to hurt you
One day it will be the successor of your being
And the only cure for the pain
And the only shelter from the rain
Is warm, comforting, and secure…
The cure is love
Difficult to find,
Difficult to retain,
And difficult to bypass,
But certainly easy to lose

Once you find it,
You lose it
And once you lose it,
You can’t find it again
The search goes on,
The creature lives on,
And you’re lost again
Within…

- Justin Bellefontaine