Freedom is not free for everyone
Pulkita Anand
Alas, and was I born for this, to wear this brutish chain?
George Moses Horton
Freedom is not free for everyone
And those who have it don’t understand it
It neither comes in charity
Nor gifted
You need to buy it
(though you are not able to buy it in your own currency)
You need to earn it
(though you never learnt to earn it)
It’s preciously priceless
It takes a lot of stories, houses, families,
Blood, suffering, sweat,
Debris, death…
To bring it…
It comes by falling.
(Like caged birds falling in the cage)
To create it…
It is created by the destruction.
It is a shiny star that’s afar
It’s a land that is in dreams
It’s a dream that throbs the soul
What freedom means only caged birds know…..
