Voice Of Freedom

Walls everywhere!
From my mother’s womb
When I was born
I cried out; in delight!
Ahh! Freedom, I thought!
No more constrictions!
It’s a wide-open world now.
Yet, the walls
Always managed to come,
Loom out of nowhere
And encircle me,
Creating a boundary
Mute yet deafeningly vocal.
Oh bindings!
So stifling! 

“Where the mind is without fear”
The poet has said!
O freedom!
Where do you reside? 
Are you waiting for me
Just beyond these walls?
Come closer to the wall and talk to me.
Let me hear your reassuring voice;
The voice 
that I have been waiting to hear
for all these years!

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