To Love Is To Be Caged Poem by Aki Nnamdi

Down on his bed with sorrow again.
A fleeting memory and he screams in pain.
He bites his lip, his heart is pillaged,
and the words spill out: 'am in love, i am caged'.

A little past midnight with her eyes still gazing.
Reminisces of the past with tears dripping.
A gush of wind and a bird coos,
she bows her head and says: 'what have i done to you? '

A surge of emotion as the bird soars high in reckless abandon.
Ripples of ecstasy on sea as the dolphin dives out and dives in.
They are happy, they are free.
But to be free you must not love.

I envy the trees as they own no heart that aches.
I envy the baby that looks into my eyes and smiles.
They are happy, they are free.
You cannot love and be free.

When you're scorching in that fire,
there's no hope of a messiah.
You weep. You wail. You mourn. You're deceased.
You scream and shout for your heart is seized.

He the man that walks with a cuff.
The man that moves with a chain.
the man that seeks the heart to destroy.
Yes, the man incarcerates in sorrow and pain,
in mirth gloom, in plunder and doom.
The man that incarcerates in a prison of fantasy
and a chain of ecstasy; in a pool of tears and a river of fears.
Yes indeed, the man Love, for to love is to be caged.