i do not know why a caged bird sings? <br />or shall it sing when caged? <br />or shall it cry instead? <br />i know cages, and i have met some birds, <br />i have seen birds on cages <br />and i have heard them sing on trees <br />i have listened them when caged <br />it is not a song, but a cry, <br />it is not a dance, but a struggle, <br />it is not a poem, but the saddest prose.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-caged-bird-cries/
