BIRD

Far off in a dense forest

in the branches of a century old tree

lives a creature , you have often heard 

that creature is a beautiful bird 

it has its house among twigs and leaves

which it itself weaves

the lovely creature 

stays safe in the bed of mother nature

it stayed safe from its birth...

but until the day

man came upon earth

when man came...

it put the creature behind the bar

which , from the nature was very afar

" give me freedom , 

i want to fly....

fly to the greatest height...

give me freedom...

flying is my right "

said the bird ..

whenever man came near

nobody heard it..

and it stopped as it sensed fear

this kept on going

the bird kept pleading for freedom

but man never heard

when the bird's end was near

man set it free

so that it does not die here

for a moment or two

the bird was overwhelmed

and wondered how time had sped by

but the next moment

he realised

that he had forgotten to fly

he fell on the ground , 

it lay there unconscious for sometime

and then breathed its last