The Poem I Meant to Write

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Have you flown, like a caged bird
Through a conveniently open window?

...and what comes right after, doesn't work. It makes you think the reverse, that someone else's words have been winging toward you.

The last line doesn't work very well either.

But the first stanza, and the one that starts, I have the scraps, have the potential for a good poem on the subject.