Caged Bird
“Caged Bird” is about families that stay silent about abuse.
They sit, they wait, they watch
But she never opens her mouth to sing.
Their eyes have a look of knowing and yet...
They sit, they wait, they watch
But she never allows herself to dream.
The catcher clipped her wings to fly, help! Yet...
They sit, they wait, they watch
as he steals everything of her being.
Innocence stolen, future dies. Yet,
They sit, they wait, they watch
But she never opens her mouth to sing.
Ears dull of hearing, eyes blind to seeing,
They turn away from her pain of yesteryear, and
They sit, they wait, they watch,
But she never opens her mouth to sing.
Sitting, waiting and watching for something,
Perhaps HER to conform and fall in line, but, still,
They sit, they sit, they watch,
But she never opens her mouth to sing.