Freedom

Are you not happy  I am away

you can't taunt me with your jibes

at my non participation in your

god forsaken banal fantasies

riding the Pegasus of your dreams.

I am not chained by the ebb tide

the repetition of forward backward

which I have watched at midnight

pitying the sea's tight routine

I am free on the sands away from

your frowning lessons on every thing

free to move in the lord's precincts

without your overlording fancies.

I am free of the demands of others

their frowns of disapproval of my ways

I dance stepping out to marriage parties

eating at will dreaming of all

who made me cloistered toy

now I know who I am undefined

I am myself in gods territory.

Sabita Sahu