Standing in front of <br />a National flag <br />a poor girl <br />with closed eyes <br />and folded hands <br />praying: <br /> <br />I don't want <br />to be raped and tortured <br />give me security <br /> <br />I want to live <br />a life of my own choice <br />want to learn <br />want to earn <br />want a family made of love <br /> <br />Another boy <br />of the same economic class <br />praying: <br /> <br />I want food to eat <br />A home to reside <br />I want not my half-faded <br />poor father at the age of 72 <br />labor so hard to earn <br />my mother fighting to exist <br />without medicine <br />she can't afford her treatment <br /> <br />I salute my country <br />to assure me the life as a man <br />freedom <br />Nation <br />Independence <br />Salute you all <br />to consider us as a man-child <br />not of other-animals <br /> <br />(*This poem posted again as a copy of the previous post regarding the same content vanished from my poem page in PH.*) <br /> <br />Pranab k c <br />08.2013<br /><br />Pranab K. Chakraborty<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/freedom-cry-2/
