Emancipate

Poem Published in Book: Transcend- Anthology by Nitya Bhatia

Emancipate (v): 1620s, "set free from control," 

For over many centuries, the broken Men have behaved in the most heinous ways on earth. This word emancipate, (ex, slave : latin)  has its roots in Slavery. Even then it was about “self”-emancipation by paying the slave-lord money. Slavery has only changed from its “physical” form to the “mental and emotional” form and has seeped inside each being, enslaved to their ‘education, beliefs, traditions, social constrictions’ without questioning them. When questioning happens, revolutions take place. And the first question is always to self. First revolution is always of self.

Emancipate

As soon as i step into your shoes

i emancipate myself of judgement

I bring in acceptance

When i understand the reason of your venom

i emancipate myself from fear

I bring in empathy and forgiveness

When i start to see my strengths clearly

i emancipate myself from victimhood

I bring in choices and boundaries

When i look within and accept all my actions

i emancipate myself from guilt

I bring in deeper knowing

When i make all my words kind to self and other

i emancipate myself from anger, jealousy and greed

I bring in compassion

When i accept the tenderness and ferociousness of the woman within

As well as the practical protectiveness and structure of the man inside

i emancipate myself from suppression and lies

I bring in Love

When i learn to discern the good and the bad thought/ talk towards self and others

i emancipate myself from violence

I bring in Light

When i learn to communicate clearly from my heart to my mind

i emancipate myself from deceit

I bring in Truth

When i let go of the boundaries of what is perceived as reality and fact

i emancipate myself from bondage

I bring in infinite Potential

Your original powers of love, gratitude, compassion and oneness with everything

Have appeared as a guiding force from within all along your journey.

Intuitions, dreams, sounds, smells, signs, feathers, numbers, books and the voice inside

Little droplets of information that turn into an endless ocean

Have given you many super powers already

Connect your dots, collect your fragments

Rebuild yourself with the pure light of love

Emancipate yourself from the patterns of pain.

You are so stubborn that you will not allow anyone else to change your perception.

So, You are the savior with the magic wand or the white horse or the Trishul.

Rise from the fires of desire

To BE the Fire

Emancipate.

Aishwarya Saigal

(29/6/2021)