Freedom Poem by Hans Raj Sharma

I'm
Not liable
For you
As you're
Not to be
For me.

Everybody
Has to be
At least
Accountable
For himself.

That's
The only
Way to be
An individual
Human being
Distinguished
From animals
The only way
Way to have
Integrity
And freedom
As personal
Economic
And civil
Freedom
As happiness
And courage
Oxygen
Of the soul.


Forget not
The freedom
Freedom isn't
A license for
But-
An explicit
Responsibility.

If you can't
Can't take
Responsibility
Of your own
Certainly
Someone else
Else is going
To take it
On behalf
Of yourself.

And then
The worst
Thing that
Get ensured
Either way
We're enslaved.

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Ludhiana, Punjab, India.