Jacana

i am a bird in a cage

Burdened and caged

Break the glass case

Encased of emergency

These flights of stairs

Are littered with feathers of despair

i am a pilot with old bones and new tears

i am an old soul stitched with new tears

Tear at the flesh, my bones will

To join the skeletons in my closet

Doors open to closed fears

Embracing closed eyes and open tears

Wounds to my mortal shell

Encapsulated in all the rage and waves

Of emotion in waters of hurt i wade through

i am an ocean waiting on daybreak

As the eternal eye illuminates the way

i gaze beyond my cage