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What is unchained will remain — An ancient people of the burning bush proverb Take a baby elephant, around it’s leg wrap a heavy chain Give the behemoth infant one hundred feet of circular freedom The young pachyderm will try repeatedly to go beyond the chain’s reach It’s exhausting, valiant efforts to roam free will in the end be futile, resulting only in the fetters bruising the elephant’s ankle This lesson of pain will embed itself into the young elephant’s brain Vain attempts to taste freedom will sour over time, for the price of the struggle to gain liberty will be measured in strained metal links of frustrated suffering The length of freedom is the distance from the baobab tree, which is one hundred giant steps, and not an inch more Then come the end of year two, in the middle of the young elephant’s savannah sleep, the chain is removed Did the strapping behemoth dream that night that it was free? When it arose having just a thin, light rope, the same length as the chain, tied loosely around it’s ankle — the elephant roared jubilantly For even though it believed it was still firmly bound, the young elephant was thrilled at the easing of the new chain And the lessening of the captive pain
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