Soul Laid Bare

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you hold my heart
trapped
a bird caught in thorns

struggling, twisting
only embeds
my soul upon their needles

but staying in your arms
terrifies
my cowardly soul

cannot fly, cannot escape
cannot
ever remain with you

staying is death
but, still
I can live without you no more