Paperweight Life

[anirbas]

In this life I am
an amber trapped dragonfly
a sappy still life
wings imprisoned throughout time
mind searching for the answers

To this conundrum
extrication my mission
longing to fly! Fly!
above and far far away
"...must be some way outta here..."

Or so the song says
hope is but an illusion
a rainbow band aid
stretched across a gaping wound
of deprivation and loss

Can you hear the screams?
lost in this echo chamber
of aborted dreams
I always thought I'd break free
of this desk paperweight life

[artolmaeus]

it feels like being broken is the thing to avoid, but until something breaks, nothing, in part can do anything but remain, why the caged bird sings, if only a fingertip leans over the wall, at least, it was there, even if it cannot tell what that is