In A Cage Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

In a cage

Stood there and observed
My friend with his cage,
Returned with new birds
Forcing in, released them.

Animals took some time
Tested wings, wished fly
To open, behind bars…

One stood with the beak
Fighting each of sticks
Not knowing of metal's
Difference with trunks.

One dreamed of flight,
Hit itself against bars
Hit iron, fell, and died,
Few were motionless
Forcefully capitulated.

Now, I read of voices
Of "Cree" of "Plains."

Speaks the "Old Keyam, "
Of the past, what went on,
"Wetiko", "Windigo: "
"A person who goes wild! "

Though it is at surface,
Its depths are different
Shows greed, egoists,
Selfishness, narcissists…

Windigo eats flesh
As it seems, appears
But it is our shadow
"Caring less for others."

Abandoned in desert
Such being's loneliness
Is, in fact, good lesson.

When arrived pale skin
Kept defining the seen
In modern language:
"Superstition of Savage."

Speaking just one tongue
Puts the White at the wrong
Since uses Europe's laws.

"Common Law" is blind
To the fact, depth of cause
Of the lands they arrived.

They have eye of London
Walked upon by crowns
That divide lands, clans
With visors on their eyes.

On what base got Rupert
The issued King's order:
"Be We, and, Go handle? "

Unaware was King and
His men of the vast land.

Was New, but to them
As is light to blind,
Therefore, dumb, and proud
They claimed: "We have found."

Keep reading and falls jaw
With burning pain inside
Since I see Wetiko
Speaking, setting laws.

And I am wolf, cheetah,
Fallen in the waves of
The foolish, narcissists
Forcing me to drown.

Flap wings as did birds
And shout under water…