Goodbye Paper Birds

(October 19, 2010)




Do you see this window?

This window that I see now?




From this window I can see them

I can see them on the inside




I can see them on the inside

From the outside I look in




There is a place I once knew

Therein they still are




They still sit behind that window

They still live inside that room




Paper castles hang on the walls

sway in the window




Cardboard forts stand neatly arranged

Cardboard hearts stuck on the boxes




They are at home

They have made their answers




They have made their answers

They crossed-out all their questions




In the room lays carton coffins

Headstones made from cut-outs




They write out their days

They spell out their end




I am on the outside

On the outside looking in




Up here the winds speed high

The winds expand my wings




I'm flying




The stars hang in front of me

The world looks like a marble




My path is made of water

I am walking on water




This flight has just begun

Only the winds know where I'm going




The waters are changing

The lights are breathing




The borders are lined up

They mean nothing to me




My questions are not answered

My end is nonexistent




All is given to me

I have no walls for paper castles




From the outside I look in

I know those people well




We used to share those windows

I hung some birds there made of paper




So far, far, far, far away...

So far, far, far, far away...




Goodbye.







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