Prisoner and the Cloud Messenger

How I envy you o' cloud

Swimming around in the blue sky,

Clustering with your friends,

Heavenly white and heavenly high

Could you be my messenger o' cloud,

Do drift- not far and be my dove,

My messenger- pass my words dipped in hope,

Through the prison walls obstructing my love

This black floor that hides my shadow,

The rattling chain conceals my words,

With sun shepherds- mountain wolves,

Pass my love through the cloudy herds"

"I am not as free as your eyes see,

I am a prisoner of the unstable weather,

Of winds and sun and drying sea,

We're both prisoners- of sky and nether

You want me to be your messenger

But my message itself lies lost

I'll rain down your soaked pain

And let men pay their own costs"

~Ajay