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Fettered Sparrow

from Tender Vignettes by Abigail Blythe

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Fettered sparrow, with your wings clipped in gold
Trying to fill your storehouse with the songs that you've sold
To the crows and the pigeons for their breadcrumbs after dark
And with each song you give you lose more of your heart.
Your heart
Did you mean to lose your heart?

And your eyes are full of sugar but there's a heaviness behind them
that's left there from each man
that tries to kiss away your worst nightmares
Where you're left alone
alone?
Do you think you'll be alone?

Fettered sparrow, your song is so alluring
The hawks clamor to claim your love for their own
And isn't that what you wanted?
To be the prize?
The prize?
Is there love in being the prize?

And even though there's no honey on my tongue
To even try and sing her brand of love
to you tonight
I don't envy her ways
I don't envy her cost
anymore
Anymore.

little sparrow,
cast off your fetters and fly again
don't be taken in
by those shiny words
that glitter in the dark
Because there's hope for you yet
to know that you're loved,
you are loved.
You don't have to try to be loved.

You don’t have to try to be loved
You don’t have to try to be loved.

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from Tender Vignettes, released September 20, 2012

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