Birds' Cage Poem by Capt. Manas Kumar Das

My mind-
a wide open cage
Where sometimes sparrows,
sometimes bulbuls,
Meadowlarks,
pigeons,
Free birds came,
some sing, some cry
But, no one is silent like me.
their talk, their song, their cry
are my poems.

They are always free
to come,
to fly,
even free to speak and cry.
No one likes to be caged
at anywhere.
But, here all are caged?
in a wide-open cage,
many birds dowelling.
It's a Birds' cage
Not my poems.
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