Somebody come and find me,
I'm waiting here as if I know
that there is another out there
just searching for someone to love.
I will love you if you find me,
true as deep as the seas will reach.
I'm just all couped up within this life,
no room to spread my wings and take flight.
If I tried, I'd just hit the top of my cage,
then fall into my own shit on the newspapers beneathe.
How said it is these days that a bird's gotta pay
to take off into that big old blue sky.
Since when did it belong to them?
We pay for our nests, we pay for our worms,
we even pay to beat our wings to travel.
I'll stay in this cage, because for now,
I just cannot afford the sky.
A bird's gotta work to get that worm.
So that's what my blood red breast is set on.
Perhaps I'll still be perched behind these bars
as the leaves shift their colors from green to orange,
could be I've still got a good stretch of a couple seasons
to fill up my bird bath with liquidation.
And when the snow begins to fall, hey,
maybe I'll stay till the weather warms up a tad.
Maybe I'll wait till I see those honkin geese flyin
back to their soaked bread homes by the lake.
There ain't no hurry for a beautiful bird.
So I'll wait my turn.
I'll wait till the wind is just right,
and when it is, I'll kick open that damned
cage door, and I'll escape into the sunlight
and fly till I can't even tell where I came from.
North? South? East? West?
Nah, just forward,
then when the time is right again,
I'll come on back.
Here's to my birds of a feather everywhere,
stuck in your cages, waiting to be set free.
See you in the sky.
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...
- July 25, 2010
- Julietson
- 1 Comment
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