Away I Stayed Poem by Meng Lim Dr

I stayed away
not because
courage I lacked-

the air
from the mass
was starting
to suffocate

a rebellion
was soon
to be staged

I had no agenda
in a remote corner
I lived in a cottage

hugged by Mother Nature
greeted at every dawn
by the full-throated melodies
of many a merry song-bird

away I stayed
yet in undying faith
my freedom
to surrender not

none should regard me
by any measure
a solitary coward