Captive.
Captive\'s clipped feathers
lie in wild distress
around bird internment.
Indifferent steel-bands
provide abandon
for a Nightingale catch.
Intense sight seeks far
beyond prison bars
and flies to furthest star.
Compulsion to sing
evokes an inbuilt
rejoicing found on wing.
Incessant his thrash
but wire walls fast
tire each deadly crash.
Trilling for freedom
cagebird\'s pleading
asks me to find a key.
Fly ~ ~ my beautiful
oh quickly use
open door to a future
that now is secured.
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