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Elizabeth Zenk
Poems
Feb 9
Pterotillomania
Pluck these feathers one by one
never mind the setting sun
I now have only just begun
to do what cannot be undone
Condemned to this tiny cage
Perched upon its iron stage
It's no way to come of age
So alas I am enraged
I have prayed now to the lord
to ask if he can afford
for death to be my reward
But again I am ignored
Forever I'll be bored
Pluck these feathers one by one
never mind the setting sun
I now have only just begun
to do what cannot be undone
I will gladly trade these wings
to feel ordinary things
I care not what this may bring
so, don't ask for me to sing
I suppose the time is nye
to my wings I say goodbye
I will never get to fly
and I'll seldom see the sky
but that pain it felt alive
Like a caged bird, I will anxiously pluck out my feathers until my escape is forever out of reach
#poem
#bird
#trapped
#caged
#boredom
#anger
#wings
#feathers
#flying
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Elizabeth Zenk
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