It’s a myth that anyone can be totally free
         Even the birds are not !

I can say this without any doubt or hesitation
      As I have spent days and days
In a deserted city park, totally free to the onlookers,
     Lazing around , doing nothing

But little did those onlookers realize that
     I was sentenced to this freedom
      I was sentenced as I could not conform !

And during this ‘total freedom’ I was carrying
     A non-stop computer on my poor shoulders
     I seldom saw the birds playing and scooting
     On the rippled lake of that municipal park

But when I saw them, once in a while
  I noticed that these birds too had been sentenced
     To their freedom; they too had a pattern
 They too had their fears, they too had their norms !

Occasionally I saw a lone non-conforming maverick bird
  But he too did not seem totally free !!!