I am my slave <br />I am here harbouring <br />Desire for respect <br />For honour for fame <br />I think I am elevating <br />Myself but it is reverse <br />In the true sense <br />In fact in disguise <br />I am my own slave <br />I am my own enemy <br />As I attach importance <br />To worldly things <br />I am forgetting <br />My real aim <br />As I think my body <br />my senses my mind <br />my intellect my riches <br />My property are mine <br />And I am for them <br />This is nothing but slaveness.<br /><br />gajanan mishra<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-my-slave/