Caged Bird

Sorry that my Tuesday post is coming a little late tonight.  Been a busy day!  (more on that next week!)

So I've been trying to think of something to write all day and it seems that I continue to struggle with the same issues over and over again.  And I'm kind of tired of talking about it without saying what that is and whom it concerns - but I'm not going to do either thing, so.

Anyway, I thought today I would share a poem on here that I wrote awhile back.  It's called Caged Bird.

Iron bars enclose me

The metal shines and gleams

But my wings ache to fly

And no one can hear me scream.

These bars are my prison

You’ve kept me here so long.

Repeating myself like a parrot,

But I’m tired of singing your song.

Set me free

Let me fly away

The things you keep locked up

Will never willingly stay.

In my heart

I know that I still love you

But it’s time for me

To do what I have to.

I know both of us

Are going to ache

But if I stay here,

I’m going to break.

God gave me these wings

And a heart full of flight

Don’t you see I’m bound to soar

And reach better heights?

But you’re holding me down

Forming me in your mold.

You’re wasting my life away

Please release your hold.

I have to go for me

To myself I must stay true.

Nothing can be my cage –

Not even you.