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    The speaker describes themselves as a broken birdcage whose bones have twisted over time into a grotesque shape under pressure. They long to one day be free from their captor and breathe freely without violence or hateful speech tainting them. While currently feeling dirty and unable to hide from the world, the speaker hopes to unravel the knot of their identity and regain the hope and peace they once felt when their heart used to sing within the birdcage of their body.

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    The speaker describes themselves as a broken birdcage whose bones have twisted over time into a grotesque shape under pressure. They long to one day be free from their captor and breathe freely without violence or hateful speech tainting them. While currently feeling dirty and unable to hide from the world, the speaker hopes to unravel the knot of their identity and regain the hope and peace they once felt when their heart used to sing within the birdcage of their body.

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    The speaker describes themselves as a broken birdcage whose bones have twisted over time into a grotesque shape under pressure. They long to one day be free from their captor and breathe freely without violence or hateful speech tainting them. While currently feeling dirty and unable to hide from the world, the speaker hopes to unravel the knot of their identity and regain the hope and peace they once felt when their heart used to sing within the birdcage of their body.

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    I am a broken birdcage.

    My bones are rusted and twisted

    Into a grotesque shadow of my youth.

    Tendons twist and curve,

    Shaping the outline of my body

    As they draw attention to the infinitesimal details

    No one but I would notice.

    It seems as if this is the only outcome imaginable.

    Compressed lungs

    And strangled ribs struggle to breathe

    As they ache for a better life

    Under the pressure of a thousand years.

    One day I will breathe freely.

    Untethered from the chains of my captor.

    One day,

    Their violence and hateful speech

    Will no longer taint

    My pristine birdcage.

    I am my own unavoidable sin.

    Dirty and adulterated.

    Unable to shut out

    And hide from the world.


    My body was once a birdcage.

    My heart fluttered and sang

    A song of hope and peace

    That led me to unravel the never-ending knot

    That is my identity.

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