
Hi sudden growth of new followers! I’m Tara. I’m sorry if I look creepy…I’m just really tired and haven’t slept in 24 hours.
I am a caged bird,
too weak to sing,
blinded by melancholy
and misery,
but I want to see
the sky.
Unbeknownst to me,
my owner has clipped my wings,
making me unable
to fly.
She watches with an evil grin,
as I fall
again,
and again;
Her perfectly, poised
prisoner,
for her psychotic mind,
the phantom.
Bewilderment has become of me
for I can’t fathom why
I can’t achieve
the impossible feat
of flying
and freedom.
I glanced down at my legs,
fallen, battered twigs
among the field of wilted dandelions.
The glance became a stare,
and the longer I stared,
the more consumed I became of their image.
Nutrients that fed the twigs were long gone,
though to my eyes they seemed to grow.
Twigs, to branches, to trunks;
the swelling wouldn’t end.
Eventually, the trunks rotted to the floor,
and I collapsed from the
imaginative,
monstrous
appearance of my
fallen, battered twigs.