I Want To Fly Away Poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir

Initially it seems reminiscent of the Word of God...'And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.' Yet while that seems similar, you feel you are the bird already, and only returning after each seeming escape, to the nest where you are burdened by vanity and sorrow. What a cry! How sad. Your well-wishers seem to be enemies spreading nets for your feet-only flatterers! La, hope I am not numbered among them, in that case.