#audiauto

Please don’t call me crazy And try to clip my wings, If you could just understand my mind You’d know why the caged bird sings.

Please don’t call me crazy And act like it’s my fault, While you pretend you’re not a prisoner I am halfway out the vault.

The reason I am crazy Is you see me with trained eyes, While I am soaring freely Others tell you lies.

I am sweet

Sugar candy

Bright eyes

And white lies

Too small jacket

And zipties

I am a loose lipped

Twipsy headed

Cotton candy

Almost home

Shy girl

I talk in yellow and blue

Yellow streams and ribbons wrapping someone, just someone, into a joke Bubbling into laughter Light and airy and hopeful So thin-sliced nothing could possibly be hidden behind it

My blue gets darker the deeper I swim It leaks out my mouth, trails out my eyes when I blink When I make no sound So blue it’s black It’s dark and cold But the pressure is warm And it holds me

And rocks

Me

Through quilted torrents

Till I see the rays streaming Peering with worry through water And I climb back up their tangled ladder again