Terry Rovert Poems

Sing all you want
Fly around but within this cage
I can't set you free. I can't set you free lest I lose you
If only you knew why it has come to this
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As a child, the family taboo was playing outside the house gates,
And like treason, punishable by death
I recall the neighbours shame calling us prisoners
And the unimaginable fear after loitering outside
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Days before I became a marauding lion
I felt it, I just didn't care anymore
It was the usual, then it wasn't.
The cat, my cat, lost my favorite slipper
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