Raven with Jaded Wings (a collaboration with smackdownraven and myself)

 
 A raven darkly beautiful  
Perches inside my heart  
Talons sunk deep  
Crimson pooling over its feet  
The pain becoming real  
 
writhing in torture  
its soul worn and weary  
from years of abuse  
 
sadly she was accustomed to it  
after awhile even a cage  
can seem like a home  
 
Befriending pain means survival  
Even if survival  
is nothing more than a question  
inside my head  
A question mark that this  
Quaint raven perches  
 
Its jaded wings held close  
Protecting its inner hope  
Its hope is increasingly fragile  
Cracked and weathered  
Barely holding on  
 
through the slats in the bars  
she held tight to a vision  
of soaring free in the night skies  
her beauty finally realized  
 
Its courage is wavering  
Its strength like a ghost  
Wisps here and there  
Never enough to keep  
The storms from further  
Destruction of its very existence  
 
the storms came  
the doubts blew  
she barely made it out alive  
but one day she finally flew  
far from her captors  
 
who said she wasn't good enough  
would never be strong enough to survive  
that she didn't have the courage  
to live without him by her side  
 
the beautiful raven  
jaded and hurt  
proved him wrong  
when she took to the skies  
her home now where the wind takes her  
she is truly now alive  
 
To be free and trapped  
Such a confusing place to be  
Pausing the progress as it  
Mocks you and sets the  
Question mark on fire  
 
loving herself for who she is  
a conquer  
a fighter  
loved from deep inside  
Its the only way to be free  
Love yourself humbly