CRIES FOR FREEDOM
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Subhas C Ghose (India)
She sounds unhappy in the wake of the
Ongoing sufferings due to her captivity
And for her, naturally, I feel intensely
sorry
As I can do nothing to her great relief!
I can’t see her from a distance with my
Skinny eyes though my ears are alert
And can catch hold of her agonies
Expressed through her queer cries.
As you may guess, she remains captive in
A house in our close vicinity, which is why
I can hear her frantic cries reinforced by
her
Efforts at breaking free from the prolonged
captivity.
Almost every minute of her day,
She remains awake and keeps wailing,
Screaming or shrieking, as if, to give
An urgent message to her heartless
captors, again and again.
From early mornings till late evenings,
Her uninterrupted high decibel cries keep
Neighbours perturbed, unable to rest and
Concentrate on things serious.
As bad luck would have it, the owners,
Indifferent to her sufferings, are much
Absorbed in their unbroken search for
Despicable pleasures, one after another.
Lustfully eying the beauty of the
Imprisoned being, is another of their
Voyeuristic pleasures that many of
The moneyed people usually enjoy.
In the given backdrop, the captors
Cruelly selfish, need be given an
Exemplary lesson for holding
The avian, fond of flying far and near,
imprisoned.
Atrocities of the persons for holding
The beautiful and the large sized avian,
Resembling a pretty small woman, from
Speeding to its freedom as wide as the
sky, can never be pardoned.
That such a deed, as dastardly as this, may
Ever be perpetrated by human beings, can
never
Simply be imagined 'cos it amounts to another
Worse crime denigrating the dignity of Man.
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