a caged bird in the walled world (an inmate's voice)

i’m a bird

caged,

warded,

enveloped,

escorted everywhere

in the walled world…..

 

i’m free

within the cage

walk-the-talk

within the walls

i live

in the walled world…….

 

breakfast

lunch

dinner in time

tea, morning-evening

i get

in the walled world…….

 

birds from

world beyond walls

visit me

empathize with me

now and then

in the walled world…….

 

better than

the life of many

in the world beyond walls!

what is it? after all

i live

in the world world…

 

behind bars, I see

beyond walls

light at the end of tunnel

I sing a song

‘love to live

in the world beyond walls….’

 

i am

a caged bird

in the walled world…..

dare to dream

‘to live to love

in the world beyond walls…’

j.john britto xavier