Let Me Be! ! Poem by Shriram Iyengar

Why should you teach me
What you know?
Let me learn
What i do not know.

Let me wander unhindered
through unknown lands
and nameless oceans
Walk with me to the distant port
from where ships depart.
Let me go.

Let me fly past the skies
Blue skies that hide
the stars during the day.
Let me spread my wings and soar
Right up to the sun
Don't tell me about the sun.
Let me feel it.
If I burn, let me.

I want to feel the wind
Free, and Careless
As it blows through empty deserts
and the icy arctic.
I want to taste smell
to smell colour and
see emotions.
I don't know how.
Let me find out.
Let me go.

Open the doors,
Open the windows
Let light in
And let me out.

Let me pass out into the light
To worlds that have
Yet to be born.
The blood in my heart burns
It burns with the same fire
that created me.
Let me create.