Try Your Wings

for the beautiful souls
of all the exiles and outcasts
that are living among us;
for all who are straining to be free
but are kept locked
in invisible chains ...

try your wings
o gentle birds,
  and learn to fly.

take flight
and soar
above the world
that is your cage.

take flight
and soar
without the masks
that hide your faces.

 

let ropes be loosed
that bind your hearts
and keep you helpless
in your nests.
 

let ropes be loosed
that choke your voices
and still the songs
which in you sing.

o try your wings
     my gentle birds,
  and spread your feathers
in the sun,
unveil your colours
dipped in love.

take flight
and let your beauty flow,
and paint your souls
upon the skies.

Ruth Mclean
     

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