Free me as an exotic bird you've kept too long <br />and is beginning to pluck its own feathers <br />To the vast illusion that presses humanity's shoulders <br />Let me soar over shapeless musings that still clutch <br />To seek their substance under a different shade of heaven. <br />As the church bell tolls its aching doom, <br />Stretching these wings could be the sweetest relief, <br />To release me from this dusk reality. <br />Deceptive Luna darts from responsibility <br />And the abyss consumes me in unthinking gulp. <br />For as long as this cage traces my outline. <br /> <br />Take that melody you employed: becoming its tyrant <br />As it begins to wilt at the corners <br />To christen me as I flee from the walls of my prison. <br />Let me loosen the net that dragged down at my throat <br />And hatch like a crocus under fulfilling sun. <br />Stretching these wings could be the sweetest antidote <br />To release me from my intoxicated Eden <br />I hide behind the orchestra of universal madness <br />And the clave washes all reason abroad <br />For as long as i am your disciple.<br /><br />Charlotte Anna Witts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beneath-the-willow-tree/
