Me & A Bird on a Wire

me and a bird on a wire 

squaring it away

song birds stuck

 on the lime without a life

fighting for freedom

                       with plumed feathers

crying for dark doors to open 

                           so the nightingale can sing

'not ask for much' I screech,

                                             what about breathe to be seen

reality sweats the behavior 

only to be a fairy tale

I sacrifice my own dignity

                   for others orbit of expanse

i meditate high on the balance

                for fear of mutilation

boundaries close the sky

                                            to a mortar of cloud's formation

amends never tasted so bitter

 as the acrid promise

I am alone perched

                          and I contain so many others

my footing has braced 

a thousand sad sails and smiles

helpless I flutter desperately

                             for the cage is in the distance 

the release still a fall from grace,

 the distance weeping

for struggling echo's which

                                       embrace a sublime sad song

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Reviews

[redflutterby]

How did you know that on this rainy day this is exactly how I feel. The tightness in my chest and inability of my legs to move all signs of talons grasping the wire for dear life. A bird that has lost its song for trying to sing too many songs. You write what stirs in my soul...

[Frieda P]

Sometimes you just feel it in your bones, glad it was affecting dear friend, to better days.....xo

[quinfinn]

uncaged but still fluttering, eh frieda? do you fear being tied to that guilded cage again, or never knowing its confines and lack of extremes once more? i wonder....this is truly one of your most poignant writes...and quite full of riddles and enigmatic answers. provocative piece!

[Frieda P]

Depends on the day or the hour, but right this moment I'm living in the sunshine of your review. ;-)

[kublakhan27]

This is an incredibly riveting piece in the sense that it was inspired by the song, yet it has a life all its own...are you fluttering away from the cage or towards it? Something tells you not to ask so much, something else says why not ask for a little more? The hardest thing in the word to do is sacrifice your own happiness for the betterment of others...it's take strength and willpower to be a "good" person in today's world...I'm not sure if I"m on the mark, but self-conflict is the predominant theme I take from this piece...an achingly beautiful piece of introspection.

[Frieda P]

Okay, now you're scaring me! My twisted mind is there, but how did yours follow? Wooo, now, you've done me in twice today! Thanks so much k...xo

[kublakhan27]

haha Our minds are not that far apart my dear, twisted or not...you get mine and I get yours ;)

[Frieda P]

What kind of meds do we take for that? ;-P

[kublakhan27]

I am tempted to suggest sleeping pills ;D