Freedom
James Berry
Freedom is not
a helpless grasping
at a source of hurt
or an outpour of oneself
to fixed ends others started
Freedom is not
a hiding in the dust
of righteous indignation
or a merging with shadows
Freedom is not
a becoming the model
of destructive echoes
or a walking in the hands of ghosts
Freedom is not
a reframing of oneself
in the walls of the old prison
or a becoming the tyrant's chain
Freedom is not
a letting go like trees grow
a native self unravelling
an adventure of a new
self because of oneself
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