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Nov 2020
I was born in a cage ,
I was grounded for most of my age.
I wanted to go out in the sky,
As I was unknown to the fact that I can never fly .

Whenever I looked from the bars of my rage,
I just wondered if I could ever go out of my cage.
From the birds like me I've heard,
That I was hatched by the sun,
As no one to teach me how to fly,
Everyone thought I cannot live an independent life.

And so my so-called life was boring in a cage,
As I cannot see varieties from the bars of my rage.
Whenever I saw some bird flying in the sky,
I console myself with a lie that I belong to the same sky,
And someday I will fly very high.
Idleness made me frustrated and illiterate.

So once I decided to leave that cage,
Where I was grounded for most of my age.
So,when my owner came to clean my cage,
I ran out as I was fed up from my life in a cage.

As I wanted to chase my dreams,
I jumped from the pedestal where my cage lied.
As it was the first time I tried to fly,
I failed to go high, instead I fell down .
But I didn't get the chance to make my failure a statistically significant try,
as I lost my life cause I jumped from a height.

Then my poor soul was wandering between heaven and sky,
My afterlife was not as great as I've expected when I dreamt to fly,
And so I was broken as I thought,  I can never really get what I want .
After this thought suddenly I was flying in world's beautiful sky.

My afterlife changed and so did I.
I immediately glanced at a reflective surface,
Where I saw nothing because I was nothing,
but an imagination of someone who wants to be in the sky,
But is locked in a cage ,
And can never really fly.
Written by
S Sharma  15/F
(15/F)   
80
     --- and Bogdan Dragos
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