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Clipped Wings MAG
September 11, 2009
You murder me
Another butterfly
kept pinned to a corkboard
Label me
Classified to a stereotype
Ignore my screams
Ignore my pleading
Leave me to dreaming
Of soaring free
You're murdering me
Keeping me caged like a canary
Ignore my screams
Mistake it for singing
Forced to
Silently fume
About small things
like wingspans and elbow room
You're killing me
like how you kill time
Slowly
Hours of cursing your kind
Find me wide-eyed
and foaming
At the mouth
At the beak
Or whatever insects use
To speak
© Kayla C., Burlington, NC
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Lonleydandy said...
on Mar. 2 2010 at 8:35 pm
Congrats on making it into the magazine :D
enchanted4yu PLATINUM said...
on Mar. 1 2010 at 11:24 pm
This is truly beautiful
xXbroken*soulXx said...
on Oct. 7 2009 at 7:48 am
this is exacly how i feel sometimes
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