Often, our oppressions are caused by ourselves.

Sitting in solitude, simply alone

Is how humans hibernate even if they’re not.

We watch Willy Wonka and live in the moment,

But how is it possible to live when

We wish for what we don’t have instead of working for it.

The bees are busy buzz-ing outside while we listen to the buzz of our TVs.

We bang on the cells of our self-made prisons,

Shouting for more soup instead of a way out.

The riiiiing of your alarm goes off, but you refuse to leave,

Taking the key and locking yourself in your cell.

Spending all day sleeping in and catching those Zzzzz’s

But still you claim, “I could sleep for a year”

So you try to hibernate like a bear

But bears go and explore the wide, open world.

You’re too scared, you’re a timid Chihuahua,

Not a big, tough grizzly bear that runs the woods.

You wish you had the courage to act on

The tough words you spit to your friends, but you don’t.

If you do, take that key and unlock your cell.

And if you threw that key away, devoid of determination to leave,

You built that cell with shows and games and silly pictures,

So you have the power to knock it down.

Toss one game to the side and then another

And now you have a door, a way into the world.

You can live those games you played or take

Part in those shows you envied, wishing you could be that hero.

Take pictures of something meaningful or

Use the world as your personal canvas.

Often, our oppressions are caused by ourselves and only we can let ourselves free.