Confinement

Like Dunbar

                             A caged bird

                             Cannot fly.

                             I spread my wings& try,

                             But

                             A caged bird

                             can not fly.

                             I

                             Long to soar

                             & touch the sky,

                             But

                             A caged bird

                             Can not fly.

                             Bound by

                             Race and region

                             And poverty--

                             Yet

                             I try,

                             But neither

                             A caged bird

                             Nor I can fly.