A Bird Escaping Finally From Its Cage Poem by RIC BASTASA

Let me not speak about
This bird that finally finds a way
Out of its cage

New to its freedom
It whirls and circles the skies
A tryst with the wind
A feast with the sun
A dive to the sea
A rising up to the limitless
Space around it

Let me not speak about its
Final regret
Its wanting to be back in the cage
Again
Because for a time
It thinks again
It is really its home
Forever

The bird shall soon ask you
To open the cage
To spend its nights there
All its lifetime

Soon it will have the courage to say it
Freedom sometimes
Home it is not