My heart has a songbird
That I keep hidden from everyone
Naturally, I thought you were tone deaf too
Just like the others

So I kept the bird caged and alone
With the passage of years
She stopped warbling her practiced notes
I too stopped missing her soothing tone

Maybe she found another home
The bird could have flown anywhere
I had always wondered where it had gone
Knowing it was time that I let go

Until you told me
Something was throbbing in you too
What was confined in me
Was suddenly freed in you