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Birdcage

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I first tried to stymie the creeping loneliness
Of my missing, adventurous
Inhabitant by pretending she was still there
A phantom of a long gone memory
That I could still declare
As my very own unabsentee

I pretended her feathers still ruffled
With a yellow delight
A frightfully bright
Blur that stirred all emotions within me

But I can't anymore
The colors are too muffled
Every day I lose more and more detail of her
First it was her face
Then her lyrics
Now I've even mindfully misplaced
The brand of her favorite birdseed

I can't do much anymore
I try to hold on to her
But it has become a threatening chore
A refusing challenge
Because I think
Even in death
She hates being
Within grasp
A birdcage copes with losing its prior inhabitant.
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It's very sad. At first I didn't think the way you used rhythm was ineffective, but it very much is. The strange pauses make everything emptier.