break out
free at last!
no parents,
no family,
all alone.
what to do?
i'm hungry!
so i eat.
eat, sleep,
try to survive.
(not that anyone cares if i don't
after all, what am i?)
fall asleep
seems like forever
finally i awake
beautiful
loved
adored
stared at
admired
...captured
put in a glass cage,
never again allowed to be myself;
flying around...
being alone...
smelling the flowers...
once i was ugly and ignored,
now i am beautiful and imprisoned.
if you believe it,
this is exactly what happens
to you,
to me,
to EVERYONE,
the minute they
submit themselves to another person
in dangerous love.
A contest entry
- {Metaphors Have Wings} by ultimate beluga.
471 points, ended August 15, 2008, 20 entries
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Comments
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this is really interesting, kinda bleak but though-provoking. i loooove the lines:
once i was ugly and ignored,
now i am beautiful and imprisoned.
i never want to feel like that! i think this piece has potential to be better, but i like it still. intersting take on the prompt and contains a lot of depth.
thanks heaps for entering!
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