A Flightless Bird

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Unhidden and unarmed

I walk and fear no harm.

It's the judgement day

that's what I've heard.

They might love to slay

me or my vibrant heart.

But I walk on, a frightless soul

Coz my soul ain't that whole

it lays scattered in pieces

and some pieces are lost

in places so obscure that

it's better to keep them in dark.

From the lenses of the world

I seem full of life, and in me

none can catch a glimpse

of sorrow or a figment of fright.

I wonder what pumps life

through my vacant heart

what colors my blood or

what conceives my thoughts.

Is it this vacuum that

makes me bold and strong

to withstand the cold...

the cold sneers of the throng.

I fail to understand the mystery

of why I am not scared

Has the vacuum consumed me entirely

and left no feelings that scare me

or am I truly a frightless soul

(because I am a flightless bird)

I don't care about the destination

or what dangers await enroute

Coz the destination is unknown

and I know that I'll lose my life

on my way to one, so what is it

to be scared of? I can just fly

away and be dead on my way.

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