NOBODY IS TRULY FREE

Nobody is truly free

in this world -

some just have bigger cells

than others.

Sometimes you can stand

in your cell and touch

all the walls

with your hands.

Sometimes the walls

of your cell

are beyond the horizon.

How lucky you.

Still they are there,

waiting to be found,

to shatter your

illusion of freedom.

You who looked

in pity at the prisoners

in their small cells,

finding that you

can touch the walls

of your own cell,

and that the walls

not made of stones and cement

are as strong and as unyelding,

as restricting, as those
imprisoning the prisoners

you but a moment ago saw as so different,

and that the guards

upholding the walls you have found

have no more inclination

to let you go free.

What do you do then?
Shall you remain in your cell,
patiently hoping for freedom
or pretending that the walls don't exist?

Break the walls

of all cells, no matter

how large the prisons,

no matter the form they take.

Be free, and let

others be free,

with birth and death

the only confining walls.

04.05.2020