No Cage For My Age Poem by Aftab Alam

No Cage For My Age

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An old man clad with white
Comes in my dream with cheroot,
For as I see he is young
And brilliantly bright

Identify him for his smell, not sight
So deep, his thought root
He inhales me with his breath
And vomits me alive
Into the words of ocean: -

There I find,
Many suns and moons
I see heaven on earth
And earth on heaven
I find Shark and whale
Formidable
And many more creatures
Innocent

Sometime I see a mirror house
I am caged within
So fearful
Fear with the images.

He never spoke with me,
One day he will break the mirror
And He will take me out of the Ocean

I asked, “Where do you live
And what is your age? ”

He whispered softly
I live into the heart
I am the light
My age got no end
Ageless
Ever young
‘No cage for my age’

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This poem what I call shadowy one has to manifest, this is the mysterious world and we are labyrinth, when I think deep I fall sick, when tired, tired with thought while walking on the path of my thought, I used to go some lonely places with my son (six and half year old) Sheikh Aghaz on the lap of mountain and brook and then I cook, beauty of human and the earth. Human lost humanity. Unclad with his attitude, thought, character and ego. This is not painful.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sallam Yassin 14 September 2013

great the purity great the light and search of true through your hearts

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Pardaz Sheikh 12 September 2013

philosophical difficult to know the meaning

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