The Wingless Young

• Sharon Deng, Grade 9, Strathfield Girls High School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

The power of flight
is man’s greatest desire;
to soar with no hindrance,
ablaze and entire.
Freedom is a right
ordained by conception.
Everyone is entitled,
there is no exception.
But! What happens to the young
that still need refine?
What gives them their persons
when they’re void of design?
Parents are puppeteers
that hold dictatorial strings;
their decisive and fateful movements
are ones that strip children of their wings.