Where Freedom Becomes A Memory


In God’s own humane world time often comes
when life is mutilated by despicable instincts,
people plunge in cesspool of vice and sin. 
Dislodged empathy finds its way astray in chaos
as morality is defaced by harsh intolerance
and kinship disintegrates within abhorrence.

In the cramped squalid suffocating state
the system of severe supremacy emerges, 
holds the reins of rigid governance
when even the thoughts are imprisoned.
Enwrapped within collapsed wings of caged birds,
the confined hearts crumble quietly
in the abyss of controlled isolation. 

For the helpless captured by dreamless darkness
where even the moon must be permitted to shine, 
thin streaks of self-respect get smothered 
like the rays of hope entwined with sparks of dissent, 
extinguished by the strict surveillance of fear
in the situation of silent submission. 

Deprived of the draft of ethical air, 
destroying the tenets of human values,
people with blank faces under watchful eyes 
walk as shadows of nonentity with muted souls,
trying to train their minds what not to believe,
when even the thoughts are imprisoned
as freedom becomes a memory.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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