{"id":87493,"date":"2021-11-05T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/?p=87493"},"modified":"2024-10-06T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T00:59:56","slug":"said-the-broken-bird-poem-by-sher-trott-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/said-the-broken-bird-poem-by-sher-trott-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Said the Broken Bird. Poem by Sher Trott-Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Said-the-broken-bird-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>click to listen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><em>Said<\/em> the broken Bird to<em> her father<\/em>,\n\nWhy have you struck me so?\nYou never made me with great strength, only with the ability to fly <\/span>\nWith the yearning for freedom and flight\nTo flit about in no great cares.Yet in an instant, Father, you have struck me!\nyou have knocked out my breath!\n\nNow you hold me in your large cupped palms \ud83e\udd32, my <span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">wings<\/span> broken and weak,\nMy heart heavy and weeping,\n\nI stare at the sky... who is that? Who is holding me? Is it the same one who struck me? Is it really you Father?Why have you struck me? Why have you struck the one you love?\n<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">You have struck me!\n<div> Yet now you hold me?<\/div>\nMy tears swamp my feathers\nMy heart wishes to give out\nTo stop beating, for there is no point in living\nFor the one who I didn't expect\nHe has been the one to strike me.\nIf he had struck me and me only,\nThen maybe I could bear it\nBut he has struck me and my other half He has separated us\nFather has taken him away\nThen he turned to strike me too.\n\nYet now the one who strikes me,\n<div>Turns to comfort me?And I ask..Is it really you Father? I have no strength..I cannot tell if it's really you.<\/div><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said the broken Bird to her father, Why have you struck me so? You never made me with great strength, only with the ability to fly With the yearning for freedom and flight To flit about in no great cares.Yet in an instant, Father, you have struck me! you have knocked out my breath! 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