Let Loose!

Like a bird, euphoric over its 
release from a freedom-stifling cage,
her small voice lilts with pleasure, 
twittering her happiness in a flight of
rhapsodic language leaving the listener 
in awe of a boisterous inner world
released within her elderly mind. She 
chirrups cheerful advice and shrewd
observations, shaking the wisdom
from her grizzled head, grey locks tumbling
about the sharpened, bony features of 
her face. The staff at the Goodwill Thrift
shop sigh, exasperated at her entrance, 
then busy themselves arranging early 
Christmas wares on the shabby shelves. 
Her bright beady eyes glint their interest, 
as her hands, like possessive claws, lift
and examine bright objects, delightedly 
placing them into passing shoppers' carts,
informing their puzzled reactions it's 
time to liberate themselves from their
stifling lives and live a little, following 
her own vividly evanescent example.