Birdie

Photo By Andre Kertesz

I found some paper birds

Circling around a sky that someone made for them;

It’s not a very big sky

Maybe 8x11,

With really soft watercolors folding into one another

Washing over gently gently.

I wonder

If they know

That their world could be much bigger

If only they could tear down the neatly ornamented

Walls that enclose them on either side.

I wonder the distances they could travel,

What they could become,

If their wingspan were allowed to stretch

Across mountains.

I wonder what it’s like for them

To have limited freedom

And not even know