Fay Slimm.

Jail-bird

 

 

Jail-bird.


Captive\'s clipped feathers
lie in wild distress
around bird internment.

Behind strong trappings
comes flight-abandon
for one Nightingale catch.

 

Forced need for singing
evokes core-inbuilt
recall of life on the wing.

Far-sighted avian hearts
beat beyond cell bars
as they aim to seek stars.

 

Incessant thrashing

at wired walls asks

for fear-time to pass.

 

Trilling for freedom

jail-bird pleadings

make me steal a key.

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Fly ~ ~ my beautiful

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oh quickly use

open door to a future

that now is all yours.

 

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