Why Does The Cage Birds Sing?

Ada Orimma
September 14, 2017

I know why the caged bird sings!
The caged bird sings a song of when they, you know the children, sons and daughters, of those who oppressed our ancestors.
When they hover and try to protect themselves simply because we walk in.
It explains their lies and excuses saying it’s the way we walk or the way we talk when really it’s only because of the color of our skin.
You see they may think that they’re afraid of us, but we’re more afraid of them.  
We’re like endangered species persistently being plucked from the grounds of this earth through the forms of law enforcement.
Will my son be a part of the afraid caged birds persistently being plucked?
Will he be a blue jay ready to fly but not yet murdered, so he falls on his own suicidal
Or will he be a babe rooted deep in the shell of its egg eager to get a taste of life but gets killed a little too soon ?
Our young men are constantly being plucked from the grounds of this earth through the forms of law enforcement.
Our own brothers are taking lives of their very own, over petty issue and the law of trust; aren’t we to be trusted as well.
You speak of white on black slaughter yet won’t realize that you are a part of the originators.
Giving others the ok, to kill the black child, kill the black mother, father, kill the black race
and turn us into HASHTAGS, #thecagebirdsfall.
Our young men are constantly being plucked from the grounds of this earth,
through forms of law enforcement, forms of our brothers.
Don’t you see … Don’t you see!
Black lives are at risk ... and the world has gotten so used to us dying to the point where we are now afraid to live.
The cage bird sing to ask what will our future hold.