~ Freedom ~ Poem from 1994 I wrote, originally for Generation X anthology!

~ Freedom ~

Let me say this –and say it so

You all can hear – you all can know,

Imagine if you will...

You stand alone in a place where

you’ve been kept for so long,

A place from which you

cannot roam...

by someone who has the power

and the means to do so,

what he has wanted is just what he’s done

But wait!

Your mind...

Your thoughts...

Your dreams...

and longings...

They cannot be imprisoned;

You strain to roam and hunt

out into the unknown...

which we are all born for

and which you’ve been locked away from,

Little by little you slip away

your longing for the boundless...

the infinite, will end only

when the unknown attracts you no longer,

When the change comes

and it has to come;

that’s when you are finally left to choose freely

No longer will you yearn for it

For your mind will no longer be

Driven into darkness...

Like a black shadowing cloud

beating over you;

For you have now seen

into the heart of it

and were left to have been able to enter it,

If you chose to do so

But

It is ‘then’

that you are left free

to choose the unknown,

therefore you are then left free

To reject it!

written by,

Jennifer Cooley!