Shared Feathers

If only one night, we could change up our stations

I’d fly far away, way up, beyond the trees

Discover first hand, the unseen, treasured places

If only one time, you would gift me your wings

In return, I would gift you a wish of your own

No restrictions or limits on what it might be

If it’s possible to see the seeds you have sewn

Seeds that with wings would finally make me free

To fly o’re the ocean and dip through the valleys

Up into the clouds with the turn of a wing

To feel that freedom would make my soul happy

We would sit on the branches and together we’d sing

But the dark in my heart gives you pause to surrender

The deeds I have done you have witnessed firsthand

Both human and crow recognize it as murder

Guilty as sin, in the darkness, I stand

My being remains flesh, my sentence withstanding

The seeds I have sewn put me here, in this cell

If not for the visits with you, on this landing

These years behind bars would have been more like hell