Freedom, my way & Illness

Narrow viewpoints in supposedly modern minds, ever ready to criticize or condemn,
Poets denied freedom of expression, held guilty of transgressing the accepted path of insipid & unwholesome literature.
Measured sentences, right not wrong, white not black, uttered in controlled voices
Dare we breathe, live, love? Dare we rebel, revolt, break the shackles binding us?
Let go of the tried, tested, safe path, it will do nothing for us.
Find your freedom in intellectual expression - it will take us there, sans fear, sans guilt
So fear not mankind, live on - brave and unrestricted
We have the music of the winds, of our land, our waters-that’s all the backing we need to take us to reach greater heights!

Illness...
A temporary stopover
In life's long journey
Ask me, I know
Give up?
Never!
Instead,
think healing thoughts,
calming thoughts
learn to meditate
Strengthen your spirit
& always keep that 
peace in your soul.

You are here
as you were meant to be
tomorrow brings with it
the promise of 
new experiences
new realisations
today,
dreary as it might seem
does bring with it
a promise
of a better tomorrow
for yourself
& the world around you!

Freedom as I know it

Freedom as I know it

I have a memory from my early childhood of what my father once told me; my father, a person whom I later acknowledged, as having played a very major role in my life, my opinions, my interpretations. He had made a simple and what might seem an irrelevant and disconnected reference. He said that my having been born on August 16th most definitely had to do with my independent nature, as it fell a day after India’s Independence! He actually feared for me, as I was the most outspoken and fiercely independent among his 3 daughter!
Yes. I am a woman who feels terribly restricted by the behavioral norms, controls and restrictions set by our ever forbidding society. India being the democratic country it is, we are entitled as our birthright, to the freedom to just be ourselves without being labeled audacious, obnoxious or even ostentatious!?! Freedom of expression is a basic requirement of a growing society, and freedom most definitely does not mean living without any of life’s principles! It merely means being less contrived or hypocritical, and more genuine.
I truly believe that no decisions must be reached without hearing what might seem the most trivial of viewpoints! We need the freedom to feel the music and melody in the winds, in the land we live in, in the water that flows through our great land. Likewise, we need the freedom to fathom, decipher and interpret our thoughts, however revolutionary they may seem, without fearing divine retribution or reprisal from loved ones. We need to be true to ourselves.
Poets have been condemned for having dared to bare their souls, for they did not utter measured sentences nor tread the accepted path. Let us therefore break the shackles binding us, as in this restriction lies our doom.


Illness...
A temporary stopover
In life's long journey
Ask me, I know
Give up?
Never!
Instead,
think healing thoughts,
calming thoughts
learn to meditate
Strengthen your spirit
& always keep the 
peace in your soul.

You are here
as you were meant to be
tomorrow brings with it
the promise of 
new experiences
new realisations
today,
dreary as it might seem
does bring with it
a promise
of a better tomorrow
for yourself
& the world around you!