Barred Words

I don't want to argue
But words dance on my tongue
Too close to my lips  
To the beat of a bruised heart
 
Wouldn't it be nice to be so serenely stoic  
I bite my tongue in failed attempts  
But caged birds long to sing  
Beyond the bars and lips that bind  
 
My intentions hunger but strive not to sting  
They simply wish to feel the wind
Beneath their outstretched wings...
 
And should they perch on a listening heart  
What chaos could that start  
And should you hear their sweet release
Would you sway or stray  
From their constant beat  
 
Stoicism is a path I dare not tread tonight  
I cannot swallow the glass quite right  
No matter how the lips pressed tight
For my barred words long to be heard
And soar your skies ever deeply
Instead of returning to the broken binds  
That have uprooted within me...
 
Should we both outstretch our wings  
Might we lyricize a duet to sing  
And Should we both decide to dance  
Might our invocations pave warm entrance  
 
Sing with me  
Invite the words poisonously burrowed  
In the deepest pages of your buried journal  
 
Unleash to me the truth of you  
I will happily devour its pages in full
And take these words from out my lips  
Before their venom takes it toll