Caged bird,
How lovely were
once your wings
now torn from misuse.
You are abused;
treated like something
less than human.
Your life is a prison-
you are reduced
to someone’s slave.
Your pain is
another’s pleasure;
your body is broken,
beautiful daughter of God.
You have been
robbed of your innocence,
but God will restore you.
He reaches down
to rescue you from this place
and bring you home
into His gentle arms.