Birds. Words.

I fell asleep with a haunting sound in my head and
a poisonous taste on my tongue.
I dreamed of blood-colored waterfalls and coffins full of eyeballs.
All blue, all staring at me like they all knew.
I woke up with a song fully written in my head.
I sang it aloud, quite loudly, and everyone stared at me with disgust.
I wrote it down and it looked so different.
I walked outside and the sky fell on my face.
I ate all I could and thanked the world.
I went back to bed with clouds on my head.
I don't believe in God but I said a prayer regardless.
I couldn't sleep this night.
The birds in my hair told me all the secrets the others
had sent them away with.
I put them in a cage and kept them close.
All the secrets were about me.