Little Bird,

To the grave
I will take you
My beautifully tragic secrets
Because they can’t hear me today
They forgot me then
Tomorrow no one will listen
 
There is a little bird inside my head
A cage to its freedom
It doesn’t deserve
The little bird is beaten and battered
For it has been trying to escape for awhile
I guess it will have to die too in time too
We all do
 
Hey, little bird
I wish for you to fly free
But with the whole world out there
You have nowhere to go
 
I wish the words I’m choking down
Were not the very keys to the cage
That keeps you bound
 
I wish we could both be free in this
Little bird born of secrets
You feed on pain and loneliness
 
I am hurting too
Feeling you
Yearning to escape
Ruffled feathers
Broken wings
Stuffed with words
Unable to speak
 
I don’t want to see you fight
To have one last flight
I want you to spread your wings
And finally be free
 
But it’s not so easy
 
Little bird of sadness
I must take you to the grave
With me
Only when I leave this soil
Will you be able to break free
 
I hope it doesn’t have to be so
But you are too fragile to leave me now
I am too fragile to let you go
Although
It hurts something awful
When you beat against me
I feel you pounding inside
I hate making you hide
 
Little bird
So broken
I’ll pick up your pieces
I’ll make it okay
One day
There will be more to this
Than silence
One day
We’ll make it okay.
 
Little bird…
I’m sorry