When I wake up,
I wake up as a free man,
One who drinks his own tea in his own cup,
Without fear, without tear.
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A farmer was laughing at......?
When he saw a huge bungalow before him,
And a uniform clad child coming out of its giant gate.
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May be you don't know but I am alone,
You must be busy, I know but just use your phone,
A phone call will be enough for my afflicted heart,
A few balmy words to remove the poisonous dart,
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On this highway which connects the life a dog is laid dead,
He has been there for a while without life in the middle of the road,
A pool of blood is being congealed that oozes from his dislocated jaw,
Everything goes on as if nothing has taken place,
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Sometimes I don't want to be the being I am
I just want to be the wind that from the North comes,
Like a leaf I wish to drift away on the current of the wind
Without aim, without destination, nothing in life to find,
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I met her here
As I had to make certain things quite clear
That what she thought about me wasn't fair
And wrong allegations, a man like me couldn't bear.
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Yes! I did get a call letter
The only chance of my bread & butter
I was more than happy
Just like a small baby in a red nappy
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Do you remember the night I made love to you behind the ruined wall?
Oh dear! our love seems to have metamorphosed into the flowers sweet and small
And they sway dreamily as the gentle breeze plays through them
Exactly the way it was playing through your hairs with your earnings gem.
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Lets go away from here,
Away from the world of tears and unwanted fear,
To a place where love flows like a river,
And the water of which heals all physical fever.
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Up above the sky,
When i raise my eyes so high,
To the highest peak of heaven,
Thinking what power to these stars at the zenith would have driven,
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Under the tamarind tree I saw her first,
Her tangy smile swept away all the stressful rust,
Suddenly a pod fell down at her feet,
As if it too wanted a divine seat.
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I still wait for you,
Believing that one day you will come to me as elegantly as morning dew,
And so I sit here with eyes open wide,
That by the time sun sets you will be beside.
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Somebody, please tell me, what am I doing?
Is this the boat on the river? I was born for rowing,
Where does this river flow to?
Am I the captain or just a member of the crew?
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I Drink My Own Tea.
When I wake up,
I wake up as a free man,
One who drinks his own tea in his own cup,
Without fear, without tear.
Yes, the tea doesn't stink of slavery,
It has a pure taste of bravery,
And brave we are now,
Who has the guts to make us cow.
We know how you treated us,
Our hearts are still bleeding by your cuts,
But we have learned to be brave,
Unafraid & immuned by your industrial wave.
The sun of your empire never set,
Now a stale tale, I am ready to bet,
The sun now rises for all,
It now listens everyone's call.
But it was not so easy,
That time was very fizzy,
Yes, the time when we woke up as slave,
And the tea we drank wasn't ours,
We were sold what was ours.
Those whites with black hearts,
Trode every Indian under their carts,
Their oppression taught us a message,
That one must not sleep so much that he may
appear a carcass.
It was time to stand up,
To have and to make one's own cup,
Thus, we stood up and we fought,
Until we had sugar to our cup brought.
And now I drink my own tea,
In my own free land.
All that you need to know is that you know nothing.
If you think you are the most unfortunate person on the earth, then you are not wrong because you are what you think.
I don't want to be a star for it doesn't throb with life.
My life is a strife between who I am and what people want me to be.