House Sparrow / Fire Escape

You know your fires out

Spend the sunlight stuck inside

Stare longingly out the window

Wishing you could kill the doubt

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You can’t help but be controlled

By your pained emotions

And racing thoughts

That try and haunt your soul

.

Hunched over, body aches

Working deep into the night

Nothing but a vessel

An organic machine, cannot wake

.

Wasted days, loosing time

Your lovely home

Now a lonely prison

Starved soul, muddled mind

.

You know your fires gone

A bird lands on the ledge

Their gaze meets your eye

Convinces you to fight on

.

Run free

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Melanie Costello