The Giraffe Blog – Poems by Virgenal Owens

Two fortresses with locked doors.
Mother is unchanging.
Father is unreliable.
Like their parents, 
Caged birds, raising a caged bird.

You poor child.
Raised with cinderblock intentions.

With broken wings on display,
They told you to fly.

They didn't tell you 
They crashed long ago
When they flew the nest.

Unable to teach what was never taught,
And you, unable to learn anew.


~Written By: Virgenal Owens