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Caged Animal

Theres a bird caged in my mind

Fiercly flapping around from one side to the other

Bumping the walls 

Scratching away

Despiritly wishing to break free

It screeches

So loud that no other voice exists

It cries 

and wails 

and paces

and flaps 

and falls

over and over again

It doesnt stop.

The professor speaks, and bird is quiet a moment

The tasks pile 

and I sit there staring at it all

as the bird screeches, 

and squawks bloody murder

begging to fly again

But I can't set it free

Or I won't set it free

For it is a wild bird

There's no telling where it will go

what it will do

who it will meet

or who it would be

It flows with the wind 

becomes the wind

even if it changes course

It's beautful. 

But the bird is a wild bird

Once released

it will destroy any obsticle in the way

No matter how attentive I was in my plans

No matter what path I decided to take

No matter what people wish the path for me that once was

None of it is of any importance to the bird.

It will claw

and destroy

and hurt everyone and everything that held it back

that made it stay locked away in the cage.

But they're my family

My friends

My coworkers

My neighbors

Myself

My life

Everything I've ever knew.

I dont know how much longer I can withstand the sounds.

But is it really so selfish of me to wish the bird free?

-R.V