Asylum

Welcome to

My little cottage

On the Serengeti Plain

Padded cells

And silent bells

A special order

For brick and mortar

These empty walls

Keep closing in

I get uplifted

From the gallant beat

Of the pendulum swing

Nestled between

Rolling hills and dangling

Daffodils like a young

Infant clinging to mother's womb

Let me run free like a gazelle

And catch my breath

In a frantic flock

Of mockingbirds

Listen to me friend

These walls are paper-thin

The swing of the pendulum

Vanished into thin air

But the silent bells

Keep ringing, ringing, ringing,

In this glorious sanctuary