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