Torious (Page-Version)

He fell in love/ now he’s imprisoned by crutches/ he’s never stepped too far outside his front door/so he protects himself with Brinks just in case someone decides to pick his locks//so every day I offer to ease his knots with oil/ in hopes that day he'll allow me to free him from the ropes that bond him to the past.

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Explanations from the author:
Umm...I wrote this inside my journel one day for someone and I actually wasn't gonna share it with anyone. But I decided that I would since the meaning was so deep and I felt that everyone at some point or another feels the same way about someone they really like.

So, okay.
This is clearly a love poem about the character's love (or strong like) towards the other, but can't quite act on it just yet because in the beginning it states that the other character has fallon in love and somehow hurt him self.
Now, how many of us can relate to that?
Anyway, it goes on to say that the other character is now imprisoned by crutches. Meaning, that love has left this person broken and unstable to stand on their own. Then it says: "he’s never stepped too far outside his front door".
Some were a little confused by this but, I like to think of our hearts as homes.
Only as beautiful or ugly as we make them.
But that's besides the point.
This is metaphor for the character limitating himself to the comforts of his own "home" out of fear insted of at least enjoying the beauty on the outside of it.
So, it's kinda a metaphor inside a metaphor.
Anyway, so the next line is: "so he protects himself with Brinks just in case someone decides to pick his locks".
"Brinks" is one of the leading home-protection alarms (if you didn't know), and locks is a metaphor for the characters head (his brain).
So because of that, the speaking character offers the small comfort of easing his "knots" (another metaphor for the other character's problems) with "oil" (the speaking character's own token of appreciation).
"in hopes that day he'll allow me (the speaking character) to free him from the ropes that bond him to the past."
Meaning, the speaking character hopes to one day be at least invited close to the other's "home" so he can "free him" with his "oil" to the "ropes" (those knots) that "bond him" (hold him down) to the past.

And that's my explanation for, "Torious". Which by the way mean, in my own discreet way, Taurus.

Thanks for reading,

Mars