Freedom's Blessing

Many blessings we are given. Some of us receive more of some blessings than we do of others. However, there is one blessing which needs to be equal for all. It includes the basic human freedoms which are even called “God-given,” but are they really equal for us all? So important for the world is freedom that it was foremost in the minds of the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution, an inspired document that influenced the course of history for many nations to follow. It’s true that only the white man benefited from all those freedoms in the beginning, but throughout time, and with the struggle of brave souls who sought total equality, in the world today, those of us in the free world are supposedly guaranteed our human rights regardless of gender, race, or creed. . Even just until the last century, freedoms had not been won for all even though for years they’d been burgeoning across the planet. Sadly, however, more than half the world still is not completely free. Women suffer most of all for this as also do the impoverished and those whose belief systems do not match those of the majority. Wars have been fought in the name of freedom. Blood of the brave has been spilled countless times for it, yet even today in the so-called “civilized” world, freedom for all is but a dream for many. Can those not allowed to speak their own minds be happy? Can those for whom what they do with their lives is being dictated to them still be happy? Possibly! But I know that if my very thoughts were disallowed to be spoken, I would feel miserable. Even today, censorship is forming new storm clouds on our horizons. We who already enjoy our basic human rights cannot allow ourselves to lose the freedoms that set us apart from the parts of the world whose citizens would give anything to be like us. Never can we allow our precious freedoms to vanish. Without our dreams or the ability to make them happen, we cannot be the people God intended for us all to be. Freedom matters and high is freedom’s cost. Please fight to keep the freedom that rightfully is yours, for it’s your best blessing. Nov. 16, 2022 Entered to Joe Maverick's Freedom Piub Poetry Contest