Emancipate

Emancipate me, set me free.
Don’t need these shackles of society.
Please release me from these chains,
I don’t stand to lose or gain.
Awaken in me a sense of self,
Don’t want to be some timid elf.
In life’s grave I’ve been lain,
Hurt and torn by innate pain.
Couldn’t take it, so decided to leave,
But still, for the rest of you I grieve.
Why continue in this foolish stage show,
When in misery we move to and fro?
Emancipate me, set me free,
No more a slave to society.