Love and Freedom

by Tenzin Tsundue [Bombay]

Love India love Tibet
I am tired,
I am tired doing that 10th March ritual*,
screaming from the hills of Dharamsala

I am tired,
I am tired selling sweaters on the roadside,
40 years sitting, waiting in dust and spit

I am tired,
eating rice’n dal
and grazing cows in the jungles of Karnataka

I am tired,
I am tired dragging my lungi
in the dirt of Manju-Tila

I am tired,
I am tired fighting for the country
I have never seen.