Wild Abandon

I have shed my skin a thousand times
This time I brought it to the bone
My core
RAW!
The carnage remains from slaying my own shadow
I will bottle my crimson blood and drink it like wine until I have completely recycled my flesh!
The old me is gone!
Finished!
ENOUGH!
I have had enough!
Today it ends!
Pacing in my mind
Crazy
Stirring with anxiety
I want my own future
I defy what inheritance has dealt
F*ck your rules
F*ck your box
F*ck your dogma
Give me back my birthright!
You think you own me?
You think you have me on a leash?
In a reckless charge, I abandoned all that is familiar
I cannot live within lines!
I banished my unfaithful woman
and burned down my house
I live like an animal
Wild and wandering in search of new territory
I was once a caged beast
Biting the hand that fed me
Forcefed!
All your lies
No longer contain me
Turning on my master…lashing out
Mad at the world!
I have released myself
My captivity is over!
A prey becoming the predator
I will hunt down and slaughter anything that says I can’t!
Prowling behind mediocrity and complacency…
I am never satisfied!
The face of madness screams under my nails
Tooth and claw!
No shackle can hold me back
I stare fear in the face until it begs for mercy
All the excuses for failure I have by the throat!
My chainsaw made kindle wood of the ladder to success
That fire became my hell
And I emerged unscathed!
Even the devil prays for me!
With my spine I battered my enemies…
and now armored with bulletproof skin!


~ Kasey Cole Braun