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by Dereje Amera | |
Published on: May 26, 2005 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=5622 | |
I live in chains—with fetters of this world Borne within me—I can’t get rid off They say to me—detach yourself In church pulpit—speak of proud I can’t detach—I love this world They can’t detach—they love this world I want to eat—what is in this world Why do I live with such a pain? For God is free—people in chain All need to be free As God is free Birds escape from the cage Never return—once they see a free world Soaring, flying in blue sky Never go back to a space so tiny I hate my cage-it prisons me My soul living in such a form and shape She cannot soar, cannot fly—burdens herself with tiny world It limits my world—to time and space at all What a contradiction exists in one’s being For my soul has no time and space But my cage lives in both! « return. |