and the wind spoke

and the wind spoke

… silently

so still

… that it roared

 

“don’t run to where you are celebrated

nor run from where you are only tolerated

stay where you are

be free to be free

be who you are

 

regardless of the cost”

 

 

freedom cannot be given

nor can freedom be taken

 

freedom cannot be bought

nor can it be sold

 

freedom is not a thing

freedom is simply free

and it is for freedom

that freedom is free

 

freedom can only appear

from within

and it is at home wherever it is

and it is within

it is not without

 

it is within

… you

 

wherever you are

 

so where are you?

strangers in a crowd

we arrive

we know not from where

but we are here

and here is where we find ourselves

and we in turn

are found to be here

 

a most defenceless state

 

we make contact

we are made contact with

it’s all new it seems

from that within

and that which is without

 

we reach out

we are reached out to

we begin to see how it all works

or doesn’t

or so we think

even how we think

but that seems to become what is for us

so we discover…

our uniqueness?

ourselves?

or maybe we discover who we all are, together

we become like those around us

yet we fight for independence

 

how much is still us is a mystery

how much isn’t us too

 

but we believe we are unique,

just like everyone else

it helps us to think this way

but thinking this way doesn’t help

 

we are

uniquely

together

yet alone