Saturday, October 22, 2005

Life Sentence

Wish I was in prison
I would have a goal:
Freedom!
A free man has no goals:
he serves life sentence,
imprisoned by Desire and Fear.
Desire for love, money, respect;
The fear of losing all of them,
and losing the loved ones.
Freedom comes finally with death,
but of what use freedom
when you can't walk a free man
on the same earth again?
Free is the man
who you think is languishing in jail,
or the man meditating half-naked
in the Himalayas.
I want to be free.
But too cold in the Himalayas.
I would rather rob a bank.

3 comments:

kammommy said...

Can really identify with this...thought provoking.

joe said...

Beautiful, i really cud understand the correct feel of the poem. Fab!! i envy the thot...

About Medicine Blog said...

The fear of losing all of them,
and losing the loved ones.