This poem is shortlisted for the BN Poetry Award.
I know of a caged songbird
whose singing has solidified into shrieking
She keeps flapping her weary wings in a fruitless attempt to forge forces
into a farfetched freedom
But her breakthrough comes in form
of bruises breaking through her bones
Listen, friend freedom is an abstraction that outwits
pure physical manifestation
Life is a stage in the shape of a cage and we are struggling succumbers
to the tune of immortal pipers
- TAGS
- BN Poetry Award
- Poem
- Samuel Oluwatobi
- The Concept of Freedom