Caged Birds Don't Sing

• Artist: Gunslinger Aura
• Description: After reading Toni Morrison's Beloved, I wrote this.
  The song "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Sweeney Todd was also an inspiration.
• Date: 01/02/2009
• Tags: caged birds dont sing

These iron bars won’t hold me anymore.
Too many lines I have crossed to turn around now
Would be betraying my old self;
The One whose face is mine
The One whose family is mine
The One who used to be my friend
The One whom I have forgotten.
With each line crossed
Each day lived,
The photos in the scrapbook of my mind
Yellow, fade, and turn to dust,
Leaving blank spaces
And rusted bars
That I am going to break
With my voice—
And the piercing notes of freedom
Will fall like the iron shards of the prison,
Announcing my arrival into the song of the world.

Comments

[Farrelei]

I understand. Very well done, I like it.
Tell me, is this to be turned into a song? The only thing I don't like about the Gaia Arenas Poetry and Lyrics is that you can't really listen to it if it's supposed to be a song =P
4/5