Song of the Caged Bird

This is my first experiment with poetry. I was given the theme of "bird cage", and this is what I came up with.

I once lived a symphony

The world was my orchestra
The earth, my stage
Its creatures, my ensemble

And I was the conductor

Fiery sunrise
Led with distant beauty
Into a grand crescendo

Through intertwined branches 
Flowed cool wind
Dancing a sweet, legato waltz between
Baroque flowers and bees

Allegro rivers rushed by steady stones
Ornamented with the trills 
Of citrus salmon 
And rain's accelerando

Time need not exist
Nor anything at all
For the bliss was in perpetual motion
In an eternal melody

For that moment
Those endless, enchanting moments
Nothing could be more perfect

Nothing

That is exactly what
My world has become

Nothing

These cold bars
Threaten to consume me
In the sound of pure
Silence

I try to sing
In this empty cage
Of iron and darkness
But a shadow's duet is a lonely one

My tears echo
As a requiem from my sorrow
Twilight is my serenade
And never a friend to me

Do not pity me
For I belong here
Here, in this desolate chamber
Without music

Oh, my soul
I urge you to break free
From the bars that confine you

Spread your wings, caged bird
And fly away
Far, far away
To happiness

But, alas
The grave force
Is too strong
And all that is left
In my power
Is to sing

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[Dayran]

' I have to stop ... the sound of the woods and trees grow silent ... Excalibur in the spine of the dragon! ' ... Merlin in Excalibur speaking to Morgana of Cornwall.