FREEDOM

Why do eagles wheel over

The ramparts of Red Fort?

Why do vultures perch

In patient wait on treetops?Is it over the carcass of

‘Freedom’

That they stake their claim?

Surely she can’t be dead yet,

Though she lies in a sorry state.

For,

Terrorists take liberties with life,

Politicians with their chairs.

Gamblers freely stake her soil,

And brokers sell her bit by bit.

Freedom for riot, arson, loot

The common man demands.

Corruption has invaded freely,

A land, freed from foreign rule.

Rise,

I beseech my countrymen,

From your slumbers of apathy.

Lest the termites have their way,

And the edifice crumbles down.

Let’s clear our granaries of rats

Before, our people starve to death.

Rise before the eagles swoop,

And vultures have their way.

Rise as one my countrymen,

Before it is too late.