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| 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
