Am I a chicken?
From Birdsong from Inside the Egg by Rumi* :
...A chicken invites a camel into her henhouse,
And the whole structure is demolished...
Coop by Yael Unterman
Rav Kook said that no one can
imagine the pain of the eagle
locked up in a chicken coop.
Was he cooped? I have felt
that entrapment in a life
that feels like a too-small jacket,
buttons popping off
Through the remaining holes
my life’s blood spills out onto the ground
cries out to God
I am here I am here.
My professor added,
But what about the chicken
roaming senselessly in eagle’s domain?
Think what pain.
I could not listen further,
for wondering which one I was.
* Rumi poem at http://andylal.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post_6185.html