caged

I heard it but couldn't see it until I peeped in through an open window. It was a beauty but was in a cage, an unnatural environment.. kept for pleasure and display. No control of its own movement outside the small wire enclosure. It is not my culture, we are meant to celebrate difference I'm told and yet... I can't. It is wrong on all levels and it left me feeling sad. It is a small thing compared to human slavery, yet it well illustrates the human condition where power is king! I cannot celebrate this particular difference.