Free as a bird...now

Written with the help of lyrics by Lynryd Skynyrd

 

 

 

 

Free as a bird…now

 

 

“If I leave here tomorrow”

 

Lonely days of glass dividers and tissue boxes

Pecking away like a chisel on some old piece of granite

Feeling the pain of each sorrowed sentence

Carving words on obsolete paper in faded scratch marks

 

“Would you still remember me?”

 

My reflection finds me a stranger of warped shapes

Names bounce off of walls and scatter to the stained floor

I have read those pieces of promised hope and lover’s sins

Said my peace in volumes straight from my heart

 

“For I must be traveling on now”

 

It seems the shadows have faded into a still breeze

Hectic lives infuse dancing dreams with left over cottage cheese

Faces are seen, hiding in plain site, hoping not to be found

Bins overflow with the un-perused and wishful thinking

 

“Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see”

 

Beyond this horizon is calling in a faint echo

Winding paths offering more than what I have, whispering on slow winds

Forgotten, in due time, as another sun sets

And a mourning dove coos my sad farewell

 

“I’m as free as a bird…

 

now”

 

Author's Note

Thank you for reading

Reviews

[Dr. Wood ?]

you are an expert at this jack...A story within a story...I may even have a go myself...He joked....This is exquisite, you have applied all your skills to compose a truly wonderful poem of hope and despair

[Jack...]

Thanks so much my friend. I appreciate you stopping by this morning/evening.

[Dr. Wood ?]

afternoon my friend....1.30pm