Friday, February 1, 2008

THE BURDEN OF FREEDOM


It’s a free world , isn’t it?

A free world indeed!

Then let him talk that craves freedom

All I preach is bounds.

Freedom corrupts!

Oh, sweet taste of freedom

The taste of freedom the taste of sugar

The taste of sugar the taste of pile

Bounds!




Check the burden of freedom

On that sick head

That talks at will and acts at will

Ask him that’s free to drink

What he finds in the gutters

Or what attracts in folly

My neighbour’s freedom to talk

Earned him a swollen face

The lady that boasts of freedom

Will soon be found a whore

With the freedom to take

The “thieftancy” title becomes extinct

Think of the burden of freedom

Tell me where you stand

3 comments:

'Yanju said...

"With the freedom to take the 'thieftancy' title becomes extinct"- Is there no contradiction here? 'Thieftancy' title thrives in an unguarded millieu, where there is enough freedom to give and take.

NB: In absolute term though, nothing/nobody is free. There is a bound/limitation in nature.

orantimi said...

If you have freedom to take, that means you can take anybody's property without the person's consent. Whereas, stealing is perceived to have occurred when you take someone's property without his/her consent.

So freedom to take will definitely negate the "thiftancy" title that most of our leaders have these days.

'Yanju said...

Well, like I commented earlier, there is an unwritten law in nature which abhors absolute freedom.

No matter how hard we crave freedom, we will still end up within the ambit of the natural law which regulate things.

So, bound, we are.