Captive.
Captive\'s clipped feathers
lie in wild distress
aside bird internment.
Indifferent steel-bands
win flight-abandon
for one Nightingale catch.
Intense sight seeks far
beyond prison bars
and flies high to first star.
Compulsion to sing
evokes some inbuilt
recall of matings 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 ~ ~ my beautiful
oh quickly use
open door to a future
that now is all yours.
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