THIS IS MY FREEDOM POEM

5 words,
I say, five words.
THIS. IS. MY. FREEDOM. POEM.
This is my freedom poem.

5 words,
5 names,
This is my freedom poem.
You don't go back to history books.
No sir, no guns,
no knives,
no rope to hang,
no guillotine,
no crucifix.
This is my freedom poem.

5 words,
5 names.
Recent times,
TRP news,
modern issues.
They will bury our tongues.

No sir, no Egypt,
no Arabs,
no axis of evil,
no Libya, no Syria.
Our land,
this place,
INDIA,
5 words, 5 names.

This is my freedom poem.
Five names.

1. Salman Rushdie
2. A K Ramanujan
3. Rohinton Mistry
4. M F Hussain
5. Safdar Hashmi
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(2012)