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The Jailed Bird

from Aila by Surrilium

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4. The Jailed Bird

Conceived in waves of explosive love,
grown in the presence of mindless thought,
born to the dance of flesh and pain,
raised by my hand, as you forgot my name.

Your eyes are dull, yet strangely bright,
focused and cunning with wintry smiles.
I was thirsty for knowledge, a lighthearted child,
as I tried to reach out, but was fiercely denied.

The ignorance blooms in your cowardly guise,
as you hold in your hands the grand champion’s prize.
I was bedded in cotton, obeyed your device,
as I tried to be seen, to your ghoulish delight.
Your logic dispelled the dancing of light,
denied its existence and cut all the ties.
I woke up, first warding the brute force of truth,
as I tried to imagine, but just saw abuse.

You watched as I withered from your moral demise
and laughed as you made me recite your lies.
I was trapped in a web of magnificent size
as I opened my eyes and then finally reclined.
Puppets caught in a morbid game,
with delusions of grandeur and fear for their name.
You jailed a bird and ripped out its voice
to “protect it from hurt”, but you left me no choice,
but to scream as I shatter that tormenting chain
and escape, never to be seen again.

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from Aila, released June 14, 2022

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