Freedom

I feel like a wild animal
born in a cage;
a cage too small to move in,
to breathe in
to spread my wings in.
I am trapped.
I have never known what it is to run
to leap
to fly;
I have never known
FREEDOM
I have never known what it is to survive
to find food
to fear danger
I have never known another of my own kind
I don't know what that would mean.

I feel like a wild animal
bred in captivity
in a cage too small to move in...
...except...

except the door is hanging
hanging loosely
open

Submitted by Miriam Hitchcock