Born free,
Are we ?
No,
Tied with umbilical cord
We’re dependent on mothers
With severed placenta
We’re dependent on others
Grew up to be chained
With traditions
And obligations
We are captives without walls
Restrained
With social constrictions,
We celebrate freedom
That’s a laugh
Freedom from what
Moral policing,
Religious terrorism,
Peer pressure,
Daunting future,
No,
We are bound hand and foot
Fighting nail and tooth
Struggling to be free
From forces on controlling spree
Who says we are born free ?
~Sudha Dixit
Bangalore, India
It’s a beautiful very well written poem. It’s an expression of reality of what sort of freedom we are enjoying shackled from head to foot by something or the other.