Freedom

What does it mean to be free?

Does it mean that you live in a place

where you can choose who you want to be?

Take on the world and mold it

in a shape you want to see.

 

Say what you want to say,

laugh or cry, smile or weep;

take a step forward each day,

or just be still and contemplate

the workings of the Milky Way.

 

Does it all boil down to having options?

Is this total freedom? Or just one kind?

And what happens after you make decisions?

Does it bring peace to your turbulent mind?

Or guarantee happiness delivered to you

in an envelope all sealed and signed.

 

Then again, am I asking the right questions?

Or missing the point entirely

What is more important?

To know what freedom is really

or if you can truly ever be free?

Boundlessly. Completely. Essentially.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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