Head perched
Head perched, like a little bird:
her shoulders slightly up.
If she could have taken to the sky,
she would be gone by now.
What is it she is waiting for?
What is her part in this machine,
she plays, unwittingly, so well?
Does she dream?
(She rubs her hands in glue
and even looks surprised
at how she slowly gets confused:
she rubs it in her eyes).
Head perched, like a little bird,
fearful of the sky; waiting for the hand
that holds all comfort and all hurt.
Forget the past and fly, little bird.
Forget the present: fly.
Forget the future - try, little bird.
Head perched.