#ANIMAL KINGDOM

Die Free


His master took him out,
From his metal cage,
Caught him in firm grip,
Looked with cruel gaze.

"My dear naughty parrot,
You flutter,freedom I give,
Now,I cut your wings,
Fly,fly,anywhere to live."

He left open, the gate,
Threw the wings away,
Laughed,patted the parrot,
without a word to say.

In dark night,parrot came out,
One step-looked back.His past,
His cage,his heaven,his prison,
Next step,then next-all was lost.

He is sure to die,cannot survive,
Cat will catch hold of him,
A bus will crush him outside,
A snake attack,when light is dim.

He will fall in a man-hole,
Children, with stones, will chase,
He wIll be diet of any animal.
Death has unlimited dreadful ways.

Other parrots will discard him,
No group will be ready to accept,
He cannot fly,no wings,no parrot,
Their company,he cannot get.



In dark night,his path is unknown,
From horizon death seems to come,
A moment- thin ray of light flashes,
A thunderstorm-everything keeps mum.


He goes ahead with blind steps,
Same light flashes behind a tree,
Praises him-He was born free,
He will die free.
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                                         =keshav dubey=
                                         26-3-2020
                                          www.keshavdubey.com