I have locked myself in here,
Why don’t I go out there?
Don’t I hold my freedom dear?
So, I sneak out clandestinely,
To make my first move towards my family
But what I see is the absence of love, compassion, warmth and humility.
The streets are crowded with so many pseudo- intellectuals,
Who profess to follow so many ‘isms’
Till I found that they hold nothing dearer than materialism.
The rich want a catch,
The poor want to snatch,
In this game, ‘everybody is at scratch’
Women complain of being exploited,
Men retort as being targeted,
There’s a need for these jargons to be deconstructed.
I found out my way through somehow,
And came across a blood-soaked dove,
She said, “This is the worth of peace my love!”
Strangulated, I return back to my prison
Because I find no reason,
To live freely in a world full of treason.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Hope A-Left Behind by William Barnes
- A View of the Han River by Wang Wei
- Джон Донн – Я весь боренье, на беду мою
- A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
- An Epistle to A Friend
- Veronica’s Napkin by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- Николай Языков – Песня (Дороже почестей и злата)
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Beginners. by Walt Whitman
- Love is Reckless by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Recollection
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- Новелла Матвеева – Закон песен
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
