Caged within these walls, crippled by restriction,
I ached to leave the nest, to chase my ambitions.

Caged within these walls, crippled by restriction,
I finally caught sight, of your withering existence.
Time-chiselled face, wrinkles marked by age;
Head full of silky-black, now a river of silver without much left;
Shrunken, hunched, fragile, you waddled along,
to catch up with the little ones, heaving heavily at...