The only cage big enough for a bird is the open sky.
And it really is that simple.
Birds are born with wings to fly — just like we’re born with legs to walk and arms to move through the world. It’s what they’re meant to do.
Yes, there are people who are born without limbs or lose them later in life, and so many of them adapt in incredible ways. But even then, their freedom isn’t stripped away in the same way it is for a bird locked behind bars.
During my first days in the Bukit Bintang area of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the twins 
It had good food, a great atmosphere and it was one of those places that instantly feels easy. We ended up going there almost every night, laughing, sharing stories, making memories.
On the surface, it felt perfect.
But on one of our last nights, 
They were hanging right at the end of the balcony, way up high where hardly anyone would notice them.
And if you’ve ever been to Kuala Lumpur, you know how brutal the heat is — heavy, humid, and relentless. And because heat rises, those birds were up there in stifling air, no breeze, no company… and no freedom.
They were trapped- for life!
The cages were far too small for their size.
And what made it even worse for the poor birds was the plastic wrapping wound around the bottoms of their cages so their food/poo would fall onto the drinkers/diners down below, BUT that also stopped a lot of the airflow too!
But no cage is ever the right size — because the only cage big enough for a bird is the open sky.
I asked one of the staff why they were there, and the answer was so full of blatant hypocrisy- “Because the owner loves birds.”
No.
That’s not love.
Keeping birds in tiny cages, in suffocating heat, stripped of everything that makes them birds — that’s cruelty.
If you love birds, you love them as they are. Wild. Free. In their flocks- with their families, their friends.
With air under their wings and fresh fruit in their beaks. You don’t cage something just because you want it near you.
That’s NOT love. That’s possession.
What I saw that night has disturbed me ever since and I can't get uit out of my mind. Those poor little birds.
This kind of thing gets normalised far too easily.
People walk past. They don’t look up. an if they do, they don’t say anything.
So if you ever go to Bibi’s Wine Bar in Bukit Bintang, please don’t be silent. Say something to the owner. Remind them what love actually looks like.
Because silence is what keeps innocent birds imprisoned for ever.
Birds are naturally messy, loud, demanding creatures — and oh so entertaining and loving too. And in this situation, all of that has been stripped away from them.
Just try to imagine that it’s you up there.
You’d feel scared. Lonely. Cramped. Hot. Forgotten.
You’d start to sink into that horrible mix of helplessness and depression — that heavy feeling when your world shrinks down to a tiny, airless box.
You’d ache for space to breathe, to move, to be seen and to be really loved properly.
Because no living being — human or bird — was ever meant to live like that.
Even convicted criminals get more freedom than this.
They get fresh air, space to move, the chance to speak, to be seen.
But these birds — like all caged birds, like all caged animals — have done nothing wrong.
They’ve committed no crime, broken no law, hurt no one.
So why are they the ones serving a life sentence?
Why are the innocent the ones behind bars?
If you see it, don’t look away. Don’t stay quiet.
Speak up.
Ask the hard questions. Make the cruelty visible.
Make the people who profit from it feel the weight of it.
Because silence is a weapon — and it’s on the side of cruelty.
But your voice? Your voice can be the crack that breaks it open.
And this is what real love looks like.
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