i am a cage

'I am a cage, in search of a bird.'

Franz Kafka

i am a cage

in my cage i hear

the bird sing.

i hum to myself.

i am a cage, inside,

sometimes i cannot open

when she picks at the mesh

i opened it

and beauty came

i cried

i opened it

and rats came in

gnawed at my bones

i opened it

and memories

tried to kill me

i opened it

i tried to fly

and fell on my face

i opened it

i walked on water

and lightning struck me

now i opened it

i walk with my cage

it is never far

can you help me

to bury it

deep in the forest of now

i feel so strange

it is ridiculous

to carry a cage