caged...

like the animals

in a zoo,

we roam freely

within our allowed

spaces---caged

and confined, yet

our cages are invisible---

we, like the unbarred

elephants,

no longer chained,

oblivious to his power,

will not move

beyond the mental keloid

chain hooked around our brain:

today, we just march

and sing sad songs

aping a caged bird,

crying to fly away home.