Dear shadow self

Oma Cici Manafa
@omacicimanafa409455
3 months ago

...and she sings like a nightingale
in a royal cage, begging for freedom
to spread her wings and soar
she is the hidden part of me
and I am an unworthy handmaid.

She waits on royalty and gets stepped on
while kneeling at her feet to pick the crumbs
falling off her plate of a thousand dishes
only looking up on commands to say 'yes milady'.

I am far from royalty so she would never be me thinks she,
for in life somethings are meant to be or not
but my shadow voice seeks much,
to be set free and live for once,
the life meant for royalty, isn't that greed ?!

who would entertain the thoughts of the voiceless
who bothers with less important beings
they think themselves gods and we serfs
but nature so kind breathed us as dusts
and red still flows both veins.

#9jaoma
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#nirclestory
#poem

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