I Know Now what Maya Always Knew

Or why the caged bird sings.

I.

Today I’m strong and sparkling. I’m the sunshine you can walk on. I house the residents of the sky. The songbird, the eagle, the star, the dream. You can experience them with me. Song, strength, sunshine and surrealism. I am residence to everything you could want. The structure of stability. I am an eternity of safety. Everything you could want is safe, here. With me.

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II.

I belong to the sky. Everything about me is beautiful. My voice, you know, sounds like peace. Even here. Your favorite song is my lamentation. My prayer to sing somewhere else. This golden house. This imitation kingdom. I am a false god at service to a gleeful flock. This empire is built on my inability to leave. I scream and have never seen you happier.

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III.

Life but not living, I am free. The wind carries me and I am the wind too. The songbird sets me free , the eagle envies me, the sun compliments my grace and I am the dream. I am free , I am freedom. I am desire, I am resistance, I am levity, I am gravity.