ϟ Fettered or Pinioned?
Which is better? Which is worse?
Pinioned
flighty nature
can be deemed equivocal
(human nature)
but don’t you feel an ounce of guilt
for seeing the flightless?
they still have wings
useless wings
that only serve to remind them
of what they once had that they can never have
again.
…
Fettered
you can live your whole life in those shackles and not know
any different
is it terrible?
of course
but you have always been on land—
no need to adapt
because no one forced wings to turn into legs.
Encumbered, yes.
but you never had a taste of relatively
free range of
motion
movement
mind.
Would you know what it’s like for them to be taken from you?
You never had them in the first place.