Design for a bird-less cage

Birdless Cage

by cathy g.

Take your freedom O bird:
take flight
take the stream of golden sun to your feathered and filigreed wing

Take the air to your lungs
Nourish the tiny pink and beating heart within your breast
Do not be captive to the bars
or to the expectation that you will sing

when the king demands a song
Sing because you have voice
because you have joys of your own
that must be offered to the mixing and blending
of the sounds of the universe

Take the wind
beneath the curve of your body,
float and soar and journey out
Take the pathway
Take the wilderness
Take the world by surprise
as you take the ancient route of your ancient mothers
Take it all
without a map because
it lives there inside you

Take it because it is yours for the taking
Take it because the love that moves the universe
has offered it to you free

Take your freedom, O bird
take flight.