Wednesday, May 25, 2005

One Armed Non-Bandit...

For the past 21 days,

I have had my arm in a cage.

They call it a sling.

But where my arm resided

was what

wild birds

are put into.

When they should be flying... instead are losing their feathers.

Or even worse,

where they are captivated

until they start to even forget what the sky looks like.

Well this,

was my arm.

I fell

and the shoulder smashed out

into the world

like

an

exclaimation point.

And it took all the kings nurses

and all the kings men

to put

me

back together again.

And now my cage is broken.

My once wild arm no longer wilful.

And it cautiously strains

to peer into the world.


When

once

a time ago

it was peerless.