Free

From what?
Escape from pain
from confusion
from sadness?

Escape from..
what
exactly?
How about

free to
be
grow
and love?

The freedom to choose life
to live
the power to choose to be free,
even?

Enthralled to a god
ecstatic visions of the afterlife
our human soul
lies chained in a dark cave.

Impassioned by an idea
the world becomes black and white
harm floods outward
spreading destruction…

Meanwhile,

our bones and skin rejuvenate
our fluids and synapses pulse
our emotions ebb and surge
our minds an ever-moving kaleidoscope

And what is that which we are
that which focusses on each different thing?
That awareness which we direct
that which directs our awareness?

What is that which directs our attention?
That thing which can only be life?
Which grows stronger when we direct our awareness
upon our awareness?

Freedom and constraint
misery and joy
choice and unchosen
the core of our essence is

freedom.