Tag: freedom

Confined

Imprisoned
Confined
By politics
Extreme and
Everyday

Barred
Unbarred
No difference

Constricted
Patterns of
Thought and being

Restricted
By others and
Self

Freed
First from
Within

Lead
Only when
Freed

Confined
I was
Until I remembered
My wings

A narrow pass
To my release

Beyond horizons
Uncharted

Possibility
Gleams

In the cacophonous mingling
Of mountain and sky
My eye finds no place to rest
No one object to hold it

So it is free

To revel in the details
The myriad forms
The endless possibility
Of discovery

Where the land meets the sky
Between the heavens and the sea
I fly free as a gull
On the shifting breeze

Steel Wheels
Get me where I’m goin’
When rubber on the road failed
And the leather on my soles
Wore through

Freedom
Ain’t never gotten with a dollar
Or no lawful decree
Not like a box car
Give to me

Buffeted
Unsteady
Windy air
Challenges
Equilibrium

Turned to it
Faced head on
Arms out wide
As if wings
Unfettered by Earth