How can I ever say
How it feels
To wake everyday
Stretching broken wings
To want
With your first breath
Each morning/ to soar
Up, up, up into the seventh
How can I speak
Of the pain of staying
Grounded/ Falling weights clipped
Onto my feet
Water-logged wings
Worthless wings
Broken wings
On a heart that longs to fly
How could I explain
Every step/ That
Ends the world
Blind-washed..
With hopes/ And dying dreams
Covered up/ With prayers of flight
Dreams built/ On barren land
No rocks/ For my foundation
The only bricks
Around here
The ones pinned
Around my fingers
Still to dream...
How could I laugh
Off/ Lusting for enthusiasts
Would you see
'Tis the enthusiasm I covet
Your laughter I'd steal
In black gloved fingers
Gripping/ Your life-force
Coming away under
The touch of my rage
A bargain? Two
For the price of one?
No indeed/ A heavy price
You'd live on.
As the shadow in my soul
The echo in my laughter
The stumble in my strength
The darkness in the rainbow
Of the colours of my joy
Stolen laughter, unwilling strength
I'd take it/ Make it
My own forever
Who are you, stranger?
Why should I care?
Stranger, rich stranger
No world for a thief
Cry out not
Nor resist
For the broken bird it is
Who avenges her skies
