Poems

To Be Free

We yearn to soar into the sky
But the fall might kill us
They said
So they clipped our wings.
Now, we drown.

We yearn to follow our hearts
But the hunger would kill us
They said
So we buried ourselves in our jobs.
Still, we starve.

We yearn to be free
But the cold will kill us
They said
So we built walls around us.
Yet, we suffocate.

Conform, conform!
They said
And as we try
We wither away
We die.

May 23, 2000
Copyright Jill. S. Li

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