flightless bird

i know where you go when your eyes drift away

and your thoughts lose direction, 

when you smile to yourself.

i know why you lead me down unmarked paths,

why you're in a state of absence,

who has a grip on your mind.

i thought i had found my flightless bird,

a creature able to fly,

who turns away from such freedoms.

i hoped you would find love in my heart,

strength in my stance

and a mate near my soul.

yet you found another in streams of obligation,

clouds of content,

in tales of misleading.

you gave up pieces of yourself with little protest,

signed away lumps of your soul,

for present company pleasure.

but you misjudged me long ago when you thought i'd leave

where you thought i would wait,

to be easily found.

and in places where i go when my eyes drift away

and my thoughts lose direction and i smile to myself,

you are no longer there.