Wings

Like a bird that grew up in a zoo with it's wings clipped.

It knows nothing but of life in the zoo.
It can't survive on it's own in the wild.
It depends on the zoo for food, shelter, and every other necessity in life.
It's gawked at by others and praised at it's beauty unaware that he will nevertheless go nowhere unless something changes.
It lives with the other birds in it's cage only to occassionally communicate with other birds in other cages.
It sees other birds that can or are learning to fly and can only hope that one day, it can join them.

This bird can not soar. This bird can not live by it's self.

Thia bird is trapped in it's cage... for now.