A Birdcage

“You look astoundingly cheery darling! Reason?”

– “All praises to the empty birdcage, my darling”

“Your eyes sparkle with merriment, but is it for the empty birdcage my love?”

– “indeed my love, for I have placed a moment and more inside, as tranquil as a dove”

“Now I am concerned, should I be?”

– “in this birdcage I have our memories, that I shall not ever, set free”

“Our memories? Please explain to me my dear”

– “you won’t be able to see or hear, it is not a birdcage, it is but a part of the memorabilia that holds our love in place, if you could only see and hear”

It is not an empty birdcage, if you could only see, if you could only hear; my dear …