No man's company

"Tum mere paas hote ho goya

Jab koi doosra nahi hota"

( "As if you are with me, just when, 

There is no one else around me.") 

- Momin Khan

It doesn't matter what I am called,
Voices fade amidst, ever barred.
Anonymous around is the world -
We fool ourselves in the crowd!

Joy is it when I am actually I,
With the freedom to discover why!
Neither pressurized, nor prejudiced -
But by conscious choice, realized!

Refusing to stay masked or unmasked -
Adieu to the glory in which we basked.
Gods are worshiped or condemned,
I rather choose to keep them abandoned.

Unburdened of all vows and oaths,
I walk all alone on these paths...
Not because I am in no man's company,
But because I love being lonely...