We were born free into slavery


All the way up to the mountain we climb

Dragging ourselves over the sticks and stones of time

Bleeding blue and red, the song that still rhymes

Is willing to live an open and adaptable life is a crime?

Where are the virtue and self-righteousness?

The bars of right and wrong are just imposing this tiredness

We were born free into slavery

And we were raised to be slaughtered yet show commendable bravery

Sometimes I don’t want that, I want a peaceful life

Live with honesty and heart, survive and come home to my wife

Is that too much to ask?

Father, I have given everything for all your tasks

For once let there be peace

No more war and no more hypocrisies

© Akhand Singh, 2014 © An Empty Glass, 2014

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: