Glass Bird
She chained herself within a cage- glass bird.
Adamant to heart and mind save- glass bird.
Love is a hoax. It shatters dear darlings.
Recluse rather than bare refrain- glass bird.
Broken voice. Pseudo smiles. Pretentious bliss.
Apathetic to grieveless grave- glass bird.
Alas, bloody broken reflection glimpsed
Sparrow to miser vulture breaks glass bird.
Disgusted. Disdained. She bound up her mouth-
Life's penance. Pallor pink to gray- glass bird.
Her despair repulsed those apocryphal friends.
Shattered; charity clings one fray- glass bird.
Vagabond glimpsed the child in filthy tomb.
He quietly speaks to allay glass bird.
She shakes at his voice yet pleads to be saved;
He longs her soul to assuage- glass bird.
To rescue her he would himself will pain-
His love risk her flying away- glass bird.
I would breathe his comfort and sing once more.
In rough warm hands Deirdre will stay, glass bird.
