Freedom Fighter! Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

Freedom Fighter!

Rating: 5.0


What is the use of having too much freedom,
When one fourth of you can't survive without a job,
After fourteen days in the western countries?

Liberty of having shelter, food and essentials are at stake,
One has no job and qualified to be cared and fed,
You are left to do whatever you like,
But your dialysis patients are faster to rest,
One dollar medicines are sold in many money fold,
Health care system is a scam and swindle.

You are rich, but indebted to every money lender,
How can you sleep peacefully with so many doubts,
You have sacrificed so much to get this freedom,
Sacrificed your freedom itself as you are given a timetable,
When mortgages, money and worldly things so crucial,
You have sacrificed many of your obligations essential.

Your children are still young at eighteen, but chased out,
In the name of freedom you showed them the path to hell,
Foul languages abundantly used even with parents and elders,
Parents are equally good at retaliation, if not the best,
Your women abandoned many of you to seek the solace,
In the bottles of alcohol and the road side mistresses,
What freedom are you talking about, when your mind is not free,
In certain places, people are happy and smile, as they are debt free.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ramdas Bhandarkar 07 July 2012

great flow, you are talented!

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Karen Sinclair 05 July 2012

favourites and 10s all round as you are truly inspirational

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Karen Sinclair 05 July 2012

Fabulous! ! ! Truly a thinking persons writer with guts and gore and yes i do seek solace in glass of wine and yes i do so wish i didnt but my children are umbilicus to me and i am a grand caring mum (which everyone is amazed at as my mother was anything but) you speak the truth and i commend you for it...bravo dear lady

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