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The Tense of Freedom

A Verse

By C.S. MeigsPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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The Tense of Freedom
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Freedom as a concept is varied and strange: Its origins, definition, conception…

All are relative and truly peculiar: to particular situations and perception.

I do so long for freedom... a true and earnest desire I crave each and every day.

But if I'm honest and frank, I don’t think I even know what ‘free’ really means anyway.

Is it to live without true restriction? To follow one’s own set of rules?

To be unshackled by the will of one's fellows... and to build your history with your own set of tools?

Or is freedom something else entirely? Is it learning to accept life with its pressures?

To let go of preconceptions of grandeur and to live in genuine contentment.... no matter what the circumstance is?

Am I free if I go?

Am I free if I stay?

God help me, I wish that I knew.

It’s as if something inside of me is broiling; bubbling to the point of a spill. I’m trying to contain something magnificent and wild.... a primal yearning in an eggshell of will.

And yet there's the joke: I don’t know how to contain, and I know how to release even less. Such is the dichotomy... to break free from the egg is to risk life and such a hideous mess.

I’m stuck. I so yearn for freedom… but I’m so stuck, trying to grasp at it's hand.

I am so driven by adventure and towards it’s spark... yet I find myself overwhelmed at how to achieve it.

My own nature's a conflict of wills and my mind's in the dark... though I struggle to find a candle to be lit.

....But through the shadow this yearning does ring; so truly, all that I am needs to break free.

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C.S. Meigs

A lifelong storyteller and general weirdo, C.S. Meigs journies about the strange lands of his mind to chronicle the mishaps therein for his dear readers... Someone send help.

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