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What a Joke!!!
by Ashok ShardaWords lead me nowhere
They do construct a premise
A prison cell of ever illusive
The so-called freedom
I happily confine myself into.
My search continues
For those hefty words
Which can produce a lay out
Draw a map
Of the path leading to
This prison cell.
Can freedom be tied to a path?
Can freedom be confined to a premise?
Or to this word
FREEDOM.
What a joke!
Can a Non-I
Survive without an I?
Can a Non-I BE
Objectively without a
Non-I?
06/16/2004 Author's Note: As long there is SEEING, there’s a SEER. As long one is SEEING SEEING, one is far from what freedom means. FREEDOM is freedom from this phenomena ‘self’ in its all forms. Self is nothing but a prison cell.
Posted on 06/16/2004
Copyright © 2024 Ashok Sharda
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 06/16/04 at 06:33 AM so one must SEE and break out of said prison (the confines of the human essence) and BE free... well thought and brilliantly stated, my friend... lessons come from the heavens... as do you... blessings... |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 06/16/04 at 01:58 PM Of course you are correct! It's a chosen boundary, to be human, n'est pas? It is being able to rise above the confines of our human-ness that makes the magic. What fun would it be if we came here with the innate ability to morph in and out of our physical/emotional/spiritual laws? Don't we choose this way of existing as our lesson and challenge? As always, you've expanded my thinking AGAIN, and I love when that happens!!! |
| Posted by Nadia Gilbert Kent on 06/16/04 at 08:33 PM It's true. A life is meaningless if it's devoted to the "A," people feel alone and they are. Words are often so limiting. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 06/16/04 at 10:53 PM A joke that makes perfect sense sir! Thanks also for your comment on Me And The Bugs. |
| Posted by Ginette T Belle on 06/17/04 at 01:28 AM god your poetry makes me think...this is really quite amazing |
| Posted by Rula Shin on 06/17/04 at 03:34 PM Freedom, maybe true freedom would be a curse if we really had it hahahaha…maybe if a “Non-I” could “survive without an I” or could “BE Objectively without a Non-I” one would go MAD! For if we had this capacity we would not be human at all to begin with…hmm…ok that’s all I have right now…I know I know, ‘what a joke!’ haha ;-) |
| Posted by Glenn Currier on 06/21/04 at 01:19 PM The self and words, inadequate vessels for the soul. Well done, my friend. |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 10/27/04 at 01:35 AM Interesing concept, self as a prison! I think of selfishness as the prison. Let selfabsorption disappear and the self is indeed free! A usual thought provoking poem. |
| Posted by Rhyana Fisher on 01/31/05 at 06:02 PM somebody once wrote the only real freedom we have is to choose our own prison. |
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