I remember..
I remember when they caught me, breaking my legs. No escape with this one.
Shoved in a too-small chicken-wire cage, forced to live off my own flesh.
They only laughed as a whimpered. Devious grins, yes?
I learned pity was no help here, I learned to snarl, I learned to whine and cry and scream.
They taught me how to be me.
And I'm perfectly normal, all of us limp, all of us drag our paws, the paws that wear on rock, skin rubbed raw.
We are all blind here, we are all equal, nothing keeps us apart.
Except these wires, but I hear them.
They whisper to me in the night, they tell me what to do.
They taught me how to be me.
And I'm perfectly normal.