Call for a personal Freedom this 15th

The nation was freed 63 years ago.

Good! It has prospered well,

Young and powerful it is running its race!

But am I free in real sense?

Am I not imprisoned

With the biases of narrow mind?

With the age old superstitions,

Have I not lost the way?

Being too much involved in

Rites and rituals,

Has not God really lost 

Its real meaning?

Is not that the basis of our being spiritual

Is deep seated in fear of heavenly wrath,

Or an obnoxious lust for that invisible cosmic power?

Is not the way I work,

Is just another imprisonment

Of necessities that I am forced to do

To earn a living?

Is not my love 

Captivated with the 

Un-breakable and cold iron shackles

Of social norms?

Is not the way I live,

Is a compulsive disorder,

Being programmed blindly

To be always in search of pleasure?

Am I not chained to the 

The endless race of materialism?

And then am I not constrained

With ideologies to explain my inconsistencies?

Is not life hijacked by 

The waxing and waning of hormones,

And genetic urges?

Are not my thoughts

Limited to the distance

My social conditioning can take me?

Are not my dreams

Dampened with the forces

Of what others judge me of?

Am I not captivated still,

With that urge to be loved back,

Once I love someone?

Is not every act of kindness

Has just reduced to 

A give and take transaction?

Are not my thoughts of 

Compassion and care,

Limited to just a few around me?

Have not human conscience surrendered 

Itself to the myopic concerns?

Has not even Business Management

Lost its freedom as a "liberal art",

To a way to just churn out money?

Has not the gap between

The Ivory Tower of academia

And the grass-root real world

Widened like never before?

Has not the pen has really

Given up to the sword?

Have we not relinquished 

The freedom to carve out

A meaning for our life?

Volunteering for 

Square boring ways?

Have we not really lost the 

Freedom to take risk,

And make a dent in the universe?

Are not our opinions,

Shallow and ill-informed?

Have we not always 

preferred to read the Twilight series,

Instead of a thought provoking article

In the Nature magazine?

Lost have we our freedom

Of being a human!

Lost have we our take 

On the deciding how humanity evolves!

Yet again, here is a call

For a freedom anew.

A freedom of self!

Wake up!

Give up the small

For the Infinite!

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