Poetry: A caged bird - by Shaheen Darr

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by Shaheen Darr

Created on: September 06, 2008 Last Updated: November 23, 2009

I can see a world free to do what it wants
People walking by, without a glance at me
Some stop with smiles on their faces
Making sounds as if to hear me speak
I watch them all and wish my eyes they could read
The hurt, the pain a caged bird might feel
My wings clipped, my freedom curtailed
What was it like to fly, with other birds just like me?
Over the tall trees then swooping down below
The wind of freedom in my face
Never to see it all again, to feel it again
My wings of freedom now just a dream .......

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