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Poetry
Freedom
What is freedom?
One says it’s political.....
No it’s economical......says another
What is freedom ?
Question some others.......
Religious ? ....no we need cultural freedom
Demand another group....
So......
For you what is freedom?
For me.....the real freedom is.......
Waking up in the morning........
Listening to happily singing birds.......
Knowing that I am absolutely safe.......
Without a deadly bomb waiting in the bus.....
To take my body parts away!
Without a chit on my threshold.....
Informing me that my head will be severed
And......
To be displayed on my gate.......
Without a ‘Goni Billa’ on my doorstep!
Nodding his head to the ‘unit’ in the van
Indicating that he knows me......
Without being listed!
To be killed, tortured or ‘punished’
Human beings have instinct......
To go for freedom......
No matter how hard it is or.....
What cost them to do so....
They always follow their instinct....
And acquire freedom.......
Just like they did.........
Nine days ago....!
- Nadira Gunatilleke
A lost world
This world has lost its glory for me
The word teacher means nothing to me
Once so precious students of mine
Now seems so meaningless
Like the dust in the wind
- Bertholamuze Nisansala Dharmasena |