I've always been a bird,
Trapped in my little cage.
It's dark and cramped in here,
It feels as though I'm suffocating

I watch the free birds from
Behind my metal bars.

I dream of the day my capturers
Set me free.
The day I may spread my wings.
The day I may fly with the wild ones.

I have the power to break out,
But I'm afraid of the consequences.
All my life I've been told how to live.
To sit and be a nice bird.

I'm getting restless.
I'm getting peckish.

I want to break out,
I have the power.
But I'm so afraid that
My wings won't work anymore,
From the lack of experience.

I'm so afraid that the wild birds
Won't see me as their own.
I don't know how to fit in.
This, my capturers have not taught,
Only how to sit and be a nice bird.
Do what I'm told, what is expected of me.

Well I'm getting peckish.

I want to fly.

The smoke rises
Inside this cage of glass
Is it snow or paper
You will never know

Your breath fogs up the glass as you stare out
As you stare at me

I can't see you
Tilting my head I smile
How pretty it is
My thoughts

I shake the globe
Watching it snow down
As I cry

Are you crying?
We can cry together
As the snow falls

You're just a figure of my imagination
Yet I cry
As I stare through the glass
Snow globes

That's what they're called
My thoughts
As my breath fogs up the glass
I stare outside
As we watch the snow fall

You want to write
There’s always something to say
But when you try
It doesn’t go the right way

You want to live
There’s always something to do
But when you try
You’re always told to move

You want to sleep
There’s always something going on
But when you try
It seems like life is more of a con

You want to eat
There’s never a need
When you try
It comes back to make you bleed

You want to see
There’s never a reason
When you try
The pain blocks the beauty and it’s all gone.

You want to leave
There’s definitely a way
When you try
It stops being just a play.

Licking the soles
of there
             abandoned shoes

He tasted the outside the world.

Dreams were footsteps never taken..