We painted the walls blue

In an effort to recreate the sky

We covered our bars in green

Replicating the vines we've only read of

We pulled feathers from our quilts

Dropping them into the brightest colours

Pinning them to the ceiling

And in our eyes

We saw birds fly across a canopy of trees

We changed the pulse of our thoughts

Until we could hear the sounds

Of creatures scuttling through the ferns

We painted our prison

To become the world we wanted

We used the colour of our imagination

To create a world we've never seen

We changed our bondage

To a dream of the sky

Then we shared the paint

With our neighbours

Telling them about the dream of the sky

Painting the walls of our future