Set-up Uniforms
/Most institutions, firms and offices
Constrain their staffs, workforce
to get clothed in their set-up uniforms.
If a rose is attired, masked,
It can’t unfurl in fragrancy,
But reeks and withers.
Wearing uniforms and apparel
is surrendering to slavery.
A giant’s spirit is damped down;
The employee’s natural potential is fallen off a cliff
with the garments imposed.
The worker is not allowed to expose,
To explore with his unique flair;
But forced to plunge into the realm of materialism,
To adopt snobbish voices of slave drivers.
By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa
From: Nepal