Saturday, December 19, 2015

Birds

There was once
A free bird
And he flew over
Mountains
And valleys
He saw fields
Of paddy
And rivers of
Clear blue water
And he saw how nature
Took hold
And life was lived
Days unfold
He saw people
And animals
Plants
And sand
He saw waves
Crashing into
Each other
He watched as lightning
Struck and shook
The world
As wind blew away
What remained
But each day
He flew back to
The caged bird
That he loved
And he told her
In great detail
Everything he
Had seen
And she lived through
His words
Imagined places
She would never be to
Never see
She saw the world outside
Her cage
Even if
They were through
The free bird's
Words
But then
One day
The caged bird
Waited
And she waited
And she waited
But that day
The free bird
Never flew back
Nor did he
The next day
And so the caged bird
Never saw the world
Again
Except the plain grey
Walls
Around her
Caged
Barred
Life.

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