I Am My Slave Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
Gajanan Mishra
Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India

I Am My Slave

Rating: 4.8


I am my slave
I am here harbouring
Desire for respect
For honour for fame
I think I am elevating
Myself but it is reverse
In the true sense
In fact in disguise
I am my own slave
I am my own enemy
As I attach importance
To worldly things
I am forgetting
My real aim
As I think my body
my senses my mind
my intellect my riches
My property are mine
And I am for them
This is nothing but slaveness.

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I am a slave.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Edward Kofi Louis 06 June 2013

Yes! We are all slaves on this earth; whether direct or, indirect. Another nice work from you. Thanks for sharing it with us. E.K.L.

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Pradip Chattopadhyay 06 June 2013

highly inspirational write....the bondage to 'I'

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Gajanan Mishra

Gajanan Mishra

Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
Gajanan Mishra
Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India
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