Why am I not free? <br />To be… <br />The person that I want <br />To be? <br /> <br />Why must I feel tied? <br />To what I was? <br />What is the cause? <br />That I am not free, <br />To be - me? <br /> <br />I long to break the <br />Bond <br />That ties me to, <br />Doing the things the way <br />I do. <br /> <br />If only I could see, <br />Just <br />What it is that keeps <br />Me blind. <br />That does not let me <br />Find <br />The knot that ties <br />Me, <br />To the things I do. <br /> <br />Bird in a cage freer <br />Tis than <br />I <br />It knows the reason <br />Why, <br />It cannot fly, <br />Back to the sky. <br /> <br />I seeing not what <br />Holds me. <br /> <br />Yearn! <br />To be free <br />Yearn! <br />To be free<br /><br />Mary Mc Creath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/being-caged-bird/
