Fey

by Mitali Chakravarty / January 23rd, 2022

Freedom is fey.
It eludes, seduces
with wafting winds,

flits with clouds
across borders
that divide. Yet

for that fence,
Freedom supped
on the blood of men.

But did she come?
This Freedom with
her promise of a

new dawn, a new hope.
Did hunger stop? Were
new jobs born?

Birds are free. The
breeze is free. But
are we?

Mitali Chakravarty founded an online site borderlessjournal.com which has published its first hard copy anthology, Monalisa No Longer Smiles: An Anthology of Writings from across the World. She has recently brought out her first collection of poetry, Flight of Angsana Oriole: Poems and has an earlier book of humorous essays on living in China where she spent eight years, In the Land of Dragons.  Read other articles by Mitali.

This article was posted on Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.