O To Become Or Be Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Every man does a life in freedom crave,
Be it freedom from ills of ignorance,
From pangs of poverty, pain of plenty,
Be it worries born of much abundance,
Or freedom be from sufferings and strain,
From deprivation and dread of disease,
From disasters causing the death of his,
Or freedom from this and freedom from that!

Freedom from bondage, from life's every let,
From time he's born till captive be to grave,
To become be then his life's sole mission,
O pulling free from things, from loads on chest,
His heady goal, and heart-felt obsession,
That oft dances in vain as futile quest.

And search he can't what's close— his soul to find.
No mortal born ever ‘becomes' happy,
As journey ends, man destined is ‘to be',
Happiness and freedom springs just from mind.

And pray what's happiness if not freedom?
Freedom from craves— even one to ‘become'!
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Every stanza in this piece gets shorter by two lines, in keeping with its theme. It also assumes freedom from any rhyming pattern, even need to rhyme at all, as some lines are blank, whilst others do rhyme at will.
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Reflections | 05.12.04 |