CAGED HEART

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Caged Heart

The heart beats in its gilded cage, the fool

that cannot break the bounds of its own bars.

It cannot bend this iron strapping cruel

that keeps it under lock and key, its scars

less noticeable to the passerby,

less obvious to lovers who would fly.

My heart's a bird that can't escape its perch

but tends it with compulsive diligence

that coddles as it cradles every lurch

and does its best to feather indigence.

An egg of robin blue's my small bound heart

that aches to smash its shell, release its song.

My heart hums silent dirges, hymns apart

from any hope of transcending for long.

MARCY JARVIS

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Poema escrito em inglês por nossa leitora e escritora estadunidense Marcy Jarvis, do site AllPoetry. 

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