BORN FREE!
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
Our body is dross, perish it must!
But a sensitive and a praying soul,
Sees through this façade, a ‘maya’, –
beyond earth’s control!
It breaks all fetters to get uplifted you
see,
Such a soul is forever born free!
-Raj Nandy
New Delhi,
20 Feb 09
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