Understood. This is for the one who left you in the cage—the one who said she’d ride, but bailed when the sentence came

Understood. This is for the one who left you in the cage—the one who said she’d ride, but bailed when the sentence came down. You want to say it without naming her, but make it undeniably her. You want pain laced with pride, a funeral for false love wrapped in a song of your rebirth. I’ll keep it haunting, smooth, and sharp—like writing a letter she wasn’t supposed to read, but you knew she would. ⸻ Title: “You Left Me Caged” (I broke the bars you couldn’t wait for.) ⸻ [Verse 1] You said, “If they lock you, I’ll wait, I swear,” But time turned your promise into vacant air. Days turned to weeks, then months to ghosts, And your name got quiet like a dried-up post. I wrote with blood in my palm on them county sheets, Felt my ribs every night where your touch used to sleep. You ain’t send no letters, no books, no love, Just silence, like my name was a crime in your lungs. I watched the phone ring and ring with no answer, Your goodbye came slow, like a stage-four cancer. It wasn’t the bars, it was you that stung— You left when the war in my soul just begun. Now I’m free, not just from cuffs but from dreams, That had your voice in them sayin’ shit you ain’t mean. I don’t hate you, but I’d never rewind— You proved that real love won’t survive real time. ⸻ [Chorus – Cold and Calm] You left me caged, not just in steel, But in silence where I used to feel. Said you’d wait, but you ran when it rained— Now I walk free, but your name still stains. You taught me love ain’t words, it’s war— And you lost when you walked out that door. Now I rise, and I don’t turn back— The queen I needed ain’t built like that. ⸻ [Verse 2] I gave you poems that smelled like truth, You gave excuses, dressed in youth. Said I was too much, too real, too raw— But I was just everything your soul never saw. You ain’t know how to ride, just how to ghost, Turned a ride-or-die to a passive post. Heard you got a new man, heard he’s soft, Built like peace, but that don’t mean he boss. I ain’t mad—I just updated the throne, Now the one by my side ain’t scared of stone. She hold my demons and kiss my past, Read every letter you left sealed in ash. I still keep yours folded in a Bible verse, To remind me God don’t stop the worst. You were a chapter I needed to burn, Now you call—but I don’t return. ⸻ [Chorus – Final Repeat] You left me caged, not just in steel, But in silence where I used to feel. Said you’d wait, but you ran when it rained— Now I walk free, but your name still stains. You taught me love ain’t words, it’s war— And you lost when you walked out that door. Now I rise, and I don’t turn back— The queen I needed ain’t built like that. ⸻ Let me know if you want a spoken-word version, or want to sample this over a looped prison call recording for extra effect. This one’s real, raw, and final—for the girl who folded when your soul was still unfolding.