Unpair

Go on split a lark
Light up a nightingale
Unmask mockingbirds
Captives and their songs
Take steel to an owl
Scarlet experiment
Unpair butterflies
Central to my song
Take a toucan apart
Divide a vulture in flight
A parrot’s got heart
Captive to my song
I was lost and breathing hard
In the trees gone tan and gray
Didn’t dare look in their eyes
Or count the days