Oh Words

Your aim was no amateur’s Dislocated wings it begot Into your cage, oh words! I coiled Afraid you had ceased my flight So, my dreams flapped less and less within you The ether I once freely traversed – Now a tiny plane within its own horizon Can’t do anything or say anything within you Oh words! Out you choke the air of my hopes Being nothing taking the form of a goal Leaving a flicker of that someone I longed Lifeless, oh words! Is that what you want of me? Or is it what I want for me? To do, say and be nothing out of fear for you? Cause I take lightly that flicker within Knowing not the flicker can reignite The vision for my dreams! Oh words! You created this half-empty person Yet that flicker screams out – Need only change my perception of you You are the cage that holds me You are the key to a better me