I Was Born Free

They gave me a name with a capital letter and made my Horoscope? Registered the Certificate of birth with their Religion? In the cradle when I cry They gave me a Peek-a-Boo Soother dipped in Glycerine. I jumped so many times over the cradle fence. Remember they enrolled me to a College adjoining a girl's school? And there I learned about Apollonius Pythagoras, Euclid's parallel lines Archimedes, Sir Issac Newton and others too. When flowery girls play in the grounds I watch them with my toy telescope a birthday present. I learned well but failed the Examination? Recently I realized from a pauper's toothless smile Nothing we bring here and anything we take away? To the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis for his great novel 'Zorba the Greek'. nimal dunuhinga