Greater Than That

This is a poem about restriction and the desire to be free.

Greater Than That

Peering through the drape

Of my synthetic cell,

How I long to escape

This paralyzing hell.

Like a bruised, little bird

Too confused to fly,

I’m trapped, in a word,

So confined am I.

A captive, collared lion,

Alone in its pen,

I’m pacin’ and dyin’

In a manmade den.

For an eagle was not meant

To be locked in a cage,

Its life to be spent

Like a picture on a page.

And when a mighty lion,

Is deemed a lesser cat,

It will spend its time tryin’

To be greater than that.

Reviews

[wordman]

you painted a sad image here,great write