UNFETTERED

ANNAN BOODRAM


don’t enclose me
within the palisades of time.
don’t imprison me
within the barricades of your mind.
the constriction
of your limiting web
is strangling my soul.
I need
to breathe fresh air
feel the wind
soar the sky.
i hanker for horizons
to let my compass chart.
nothing
dictates my adherence
to your blueprint for my vessel.
my body’s an unfettered tempest
my heart a dare to conquest.
you can moor me in caring
if you leave open the port.

 

• Annan Boodram is a Guyanese-born, New York City-based educator, journalist and social activist. He is also the founder of the The Caribbean Voice, a non-governmental organization that is currently engaged in suicide prevention in Guyana and the Caribbean Diaspora.