Firebreach

Waking up,
Smoke here,
There,
Filling up this tiny cage,
High in the air,
The others scream,
Run about,
Knock the others down,
In a rush to get out.

Even the ones that are down below,
Run about,
Wearing the madcap,
Wreathed in the ribbons of insanity,
Never looking up,
Hunched over,
Wet and rushing about.

No one ever thinks to look at us,
High in the smoke,
Far away from our beloved white teak,
Only me with my wings over my beak.

We're as low as we can go,
Lost pride,
Lost nature,
And none think,
Jus panic about...
While the others wonder,
"Is something wrong?'
While the others scream about.

It's just me,
Thinking here,
The others died,
Or passed out from fear.
It's just me here,
Depressed in this cage,
Knowing death is near.

And when I look up,
I see his beautiful form,
Glowing golden,
Wreathed in Shadow's born,
With the fruits and nuts,
And the new heavenly home;
I smile at it, grateful,
To finally be long gone,
When she frowns,
And shakes his head,
And points with her wing,
At my friends long, long dead.

It seems I still have pain,
And sadness yet to be,
And with a reluctant breath,
I fall into a sleep.

***

I wake up,
Covered in the dirt,
No light breaches my place here,
And everything hurts.
I hear moving,
And tweet my beak,
And something shift above.
I look up,
To see one of Them.
One of them so cruel...
He takes a big stick,
And hovers it just so...
It seems I'm about to-

End.

ISA