Internment.
Captive\'s clipped feathers
lie in wild distress
aside bird internment.
Indifferent steel-bands
win flight-abandon
for a Nightingale catch.
Inner sight seeks afar
beyond prison bars
and flies up to starlight.
Compulsion to sing
evokes deep inbuilt
re-call of life on wing.
Incessant thrashing
at wire walls asks
this fear-time to pass.
Trilling for freedom
cage-bird pleadings
make me steal the key.
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Fly now my beautiful
oh quickly use
no door to your future
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