That bird

20/7/2009

If you don't love me, don't keep me here
Let me go, let me fly, be free.
Never was I meant to be stopped in the tracks,
still I did, paused, but for a little while.

Now,
Say, don't change me, let me change for you.
Say, don't listen to me, allow me to hear you.
but we're such fragile people. We're so slippery.
Now I understand. I think I do.
and it scares me.
Inevitable, they say. I wonder.

Oh cover my eyes, lest I see the truth in beauty.
Cover my ears, lest I start to believe.
No I was never a believer,
I was never that flow in the sea.
A pebbles maybe, but never a tree.
My apologies dear, but I hate to sway.
Let me stay here rooted, come night or day.

Oh we're missing but I don't know where,
Let me search, you stay there, this isn't fair.
Why me, is this what they call karma?
Why me, i've had just about enough of this melodrama.

Oh leave me be as I leave you there
Hug me close, as I say my last prayer,
You live, then die, you fight then lie.
A routine, Everything, tired, are you not?
I am.

Should I disappear, should I too?
 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Beregond]

Very intriguing piece! The theme seems to twist its way through the later stanzas, becoming a little more naked and abrasive. Effective both in the enigmatic phase and the later one. Thumbs up.

[Butterflymom]

This is a raw, honest, and heartfelt piece. Nicely done.

[Donovan "Grey Wolf" Go..]

your a good starting out poet