I Know Why The Caged Birds Sings: Reflections

I know why the caged bird sings...because her pretty wings are torn and tattered from beating them on the cruel bars of society's cage. Her efforts of getting someone's attention has left her jaded. The daily voyeours that pass by watching, speculating, probing, admiring her through those cruel bars are using her song and physical beauty for their entertainment. Not once does someone see the pain and fear in her eyes. Not once do these on-lookers hear her blues songs of liberation. Not once do these on-lookers think that her beauty should not be confined to norms of a caged bird. No once does the on-lookers see the blood stained tears from weeping and singing her soul out.



Yes the caged birds sings for she has beaten her wings for so long aganist society's cruel bars that today when her Master opened the cage she does not move. She is paralyzed. She has been conditioned to stay on her limbs poised on a splinted perch and sing her blues songs of awaited freedom. Hence, she sees the caged door open, she no longers has the strength and courage to make the first step, for fear the door will be closed on her.



So she sits there crippled by her own fear and now she has become her own oppressor. So yes I know why the caged birds sings...because she is free, but she has not accepted the fact that she now has the power to fly free...even though the door of liberation is wide open in front of her....its a choice of free will... 



So tragic that this symbolic reflection is very common today amongst women and men...Let us not be like a caged bird ... Take flight and fly free my people.. the choice is yours...the unknown is always scary but its so much better to fly wounded than be too cooped up in society's cage with a broken spirit that has you paralyzed with fear.