Freedom

Fight for freedom – you say
What freedom – I say
Political, social, religious
Intellectual, sexual – you say

Or freedom from
Law – civil, physical, spiritual
From intellect, emotion, sensation
Death – say you

There is no freedom – say I
Only exchange of
One tyranny for another

Political – tax collectors and tyrants
Social – cliques and classes
Religeious – saviors and dogma
Intelectual – theories
Sexual – partbers
No freedom – say I
Exchange of trappings

Freedom from
Law – physical and civil
From sensation, emotion
And intellect
Implies death

Freedom from death
Implies life
Implies sensation and laws
Physical and spiritual
Implies bondage

Thus, no freedom – say I
Total freedom – you say
Implies godhood – say I
Implies creation
Imples laws – physical
And spiritual

Thus, freedom implies bondage
No excape from the swamp
And its freedom-like quicksand
The harder you fight
The faster you sink
In it – say I

–LE