Mouse on a Wheel

Mouse on a wheel
Running running
Where am I going
Do I know
Do I believe I ever move
Is all an exercise

This is my life
This wheel
Running to get ahead
Never moving at all

The race in my head
To move from the past
How do I go
Where do I go
It isn’t real
Illusion of movement
Forward no different
Than reverse

Climbing up the side
Glass walls
Trapped in a box
Depending on others
For small bits
Of food
And love

Where is the home
Out of the box
Where I can be free
And run a straight line
Not round in circles

It doesn’t exist
This is all
The world
For me
A glass box
A wheel
Endless running
No end in sight