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POET AND IMPRISONED PILOT


My  walk  beneath  the  sun of  a  Saturday  morning  in the lively  streets  of  Minna my own darling  birth  town. Busy  rabble  were  amongst the  citizens  of  that  hour. Bright  lovely  sky  with undefined motions  of  sinless pidgins sailing  it  and  their   shadows roaming  the  street  floors. Free  must  they  be  flapping their  wings  swiftly  in  the vastness  of  the  blue. I  saw  a  lad  in  tired  grey  shirt, standing by a tree hoping for kindness from the Sun's rage. His left  hand  holding  a  cage   and that object was confining   three petite birds  for  sale. Dear  life  caged  and  tagged   with price  to  be  lifted  with ‘stupid’  earthly  papers. Colorful  they  were  to  my  seeing and  to  my  quiet  war  as thoughts, i thought they  are  little  but  then   i realized  that is to  be normal  size of  their  specie’s  full  growth. My  hand, if  thee and  i  are  good  — with  saving, we  would had bought  their  freedom. In  truth  their  freedom  but  not  them and  set  them  free  into  freeness where  their wings and chest belong. Their  freedom  but  not  them, for  what  Everest  of  gold   can in  truth  buy  life?   None,  aye. Firstly, I  asked  myself  in  outer  silence “where  rests  freedom  for  the  birds?” with  same  quietness  i  answered “their  freedom  is  outside  his  cage, their  confinement  within  it’s  sticks”. And  in  reference  to  the  Human - Enslaved to air and water, I asked  my  inner  self  secondly “his  confinement  is  the  human —  heart’s unquenchable  desires?” and my deeper being uttered: “like  a  jug  that  house  wants  and   desires  is  the  heart, but  that  jug  as  it  is — is  bottomless  and cursed  to  be with  never  ending  longings, created to be  far  from  fulfillment   with a distance mightier than that of northern and southern poles on a planet of infinite spaciousness, but within arm's length to contentment. And  I blinked and asked  myself  thirdly “and  his  freedom  is  for  him  to walk   to  the  dusk   of  his  days free  of  encumbrance?” Heavy  perplexity  boarded my  ship  of  knowledge, drowning  dead  my  answers and   I said naught. Because  the  laws  that  govern the   world  and  hearts of men are  laws above  me  and  my  crucifying. That  very  law  placed  animals below   the insatiable  hearts  of humans, yet  humans  grief  when  that same  law  place  them  below a mightier  hand. I read  of  the  worries  of  a  noble   when loosing  his  wealth  to   forty Arabian  thieves. This  law  that  we  all  forcefully or  willingly  oblige  to, like it is lady tyranny or her   ‘frenemy’  — democracy. This  law  oftentimes had drowned me   in dip of  melancholy  and  suffocated   me  asleep with  the  therapy i get from  Irish  and Scottish  tunes, Lightening my heaviness And giving  me  keys  to  escape the   unpleasant  season  temporarily – though  sometimes  be  haunted  in  my sleeping  dreams  but  with a very lesser weight and magnitude indeed. And  voiceless  I  asked  lastly, addressed  to  the  birds  as  if – they  are  inside  me “is  this  your  price  of  being  alive? and  mine  this  spirit  wearing   white cotton  woven  fabric   with  mouth clung  to  barrel  of  softness, drinking  from  it  not  knowing how drunk  am  I  being  this madman?” I  don’t  know  how  drunk  am  I, to the spiritual insanity of feeling things   like  these that  are  shunned   but nights  ago  In  truth, i  dreamt  of  a  dying  flower   and i  magically  offered  my   life line for  it to  bloom  again. And so my friend, After  all  the  questioning, answering – and  perplexity, i  passed my fellow caged  earthlings   silently amongst  hundreds  passers  by, I,  walking  with  sense  of  alienage because inside  me  is  a  house  with thoughts and voices non  from  the   passers  by can  dare build  inside  them   or  ever  indoor mine with sense of spiritual awakening! ©Salimsulaiman.el
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