Emancipation

You retain but the body
The spirit- it is free
Neither bolt nor shackle
Nor chain can hold me.

Put in more locks
Increase guards hundredfold
Try hard as you may
Me you cannot hold

My mind is truly free
It reaches so far
New heights, mountains towers
The highest, the utmost star.

From thinking as I wish
Me, you cannot prevent
I may bend at the most
Though breaking me you intend.

I am not one of the usual
Docile, afraid, tame things
I have tasted freedom
And it gave me my wings.

So even with them clipped
I’ll fly- far far will I roam
For freedom, for liberty
The world I will comb.

I am far above you
High oh so so high
Watch me spread my wings
Watch how far can I fly!

Torture threatening cajoling
My ideas you cannot quell
Whoever conquered the ocean
Or held back the swell?

I will never let this blackness
This dark be my fate
No matter how you hold me
I will myself extricate.
Then I shall fly hard and fast
Far far far away
I know the time will come
Tomorrow is another day