{"sf1_id":248027,"sf2_id":"k1VyOVjn","title":"The Canary (Poem)","author":"icetalon92","words":453,"posted_at":"2011-05-10T00:02:00.000Z","tags":["Canary","Clean","No-Yiff"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/248027-the-canary-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/k1VyOVjn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/82/94/8294f1ce-21e6-481c-b2b6-5b4229500868","description":"","content":"This poem was written by Amanda. I am only doing minor editing, and posting them with her permission!\n\nNote to those who know how to write poetry: I'm not sure how to work with this enough so that it's accurate, I added a few bits of punctuation in areas I felt needed them. Please correct me via comment or private message if you know it's wrong! Thanks much!\n\nPlease also vote, good or bad, and comment why you think that way so I can tell the author what other people think. She cannot improve if she doesn't know what's wrong.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nPlease enjoy!\n\n================\n\nThe canary sits in her cage, crying all alone.\n\nI can't ignore it because I'm sad to see her cry.\n\nShe sits on her tiny perch, so far from home;\n\nI can tell by the way she cries, she wants to fly.\n\nShe wishes to leave, but she must remain,\n\nSo she continues to cry for her wish, all day;\n\nHer tears well up in her eyes, then fall like the rain.\n\nHer master knows her wish, but forces her to stay.\n\nThe master sees how the canary's heart aches\n\nDeep inside he feels, the same pain her heart.\n\nThe canary longs for the sky, but the trip she cannot make.\n\nIf she were to leave, the master would fall apart.\n\nThe master is like the canary, trapped and alone.\n\nShe is the master's one and only friend.\n\nShe cries for freedom, but all her life she has known,\n\nShe will always be caged, until her life's end.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nDeep inside I wish that she can be free,\n\nAll I can do is watch, as the master makes her cry.\n\nI am sad that this is the only place where she can be;\n\nI want to help her, but I instead may to led to cry.\n\nI don't think the master truly sees her pain,\n\nI know the canary is a wild and free soul.\n\nThe master doesn't know what he does is wrong,\n\nThe canary has in her heart one and only goal;\n\nIf the master learns to love, maybe he can finally hear her song.\n\n================\n\nGeez, I wasn't expecting such a dark poem this time =.= She writes these without any guidelines except those following the SoFurry rules, so she writes what she wants. I'll see if the next one can be a tiny bit on the happier side..\n\nGetting back on a more important topic, please do comment and rate her works. She works hard on them, and has never had anything, besides what's currently posted, shared publicly. The only thing she wants back out of this is to know what her readers think.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}