You do not spill fluid
Burst a pipe
To set it free.
The freedom of a pipe
Is its ability to deliver
The fluid to the required destination.
A kite is free
To fly on the wings
Of the wind
When its rope is cut:
But not so, a vein.
The apple will cut
Off the branch when it is
Ripe, but not before.
You do not need to cut
It, for freedom comes with maturity.
There’s nothing freeing
In dying twice.
True freedom lies
In the resurrection of the dead.
Ugochukwu Anadị
is a student of the University of Nigeria who takes writing as a therapy to keep his sanity. He has so far written under two genres of Literature: Prose and Poetry. He has been published in Nantygreens Magazine, The Literary Yard Magazine, and Woven Poetry. His essay that won the Nelson Mandela Peace Prize in the 2021 International Human Rights Arts Festival “Human Rights Essay Writing Competition” is awaiting publication in the International Human Rights Arts Festival anthology. He was also the third runner-up in the Dozie Nwankwo Essay Writing Competition 2020. To him, writing and reading stories, essays and poems are the best ways to actually live.