Their Chains S(he) Cannot See
An Aphorism in Ab
What is FREEDOM?
How is it that FREEDOM can be truly KNOWN?
How is it that it can be LIVED and LIVED fully if it is to be LIVED at all?
Oh, how often do persons cheaply claim it, that they are in the truest sense FREE...
Oh, how often do persons spill wrathful rhetoric in defense of their sweet, sweet LIBERTY
But little, so very little, do most persons in fact KNOW...
That their FREEDOM...
Oh, yes their FREEDOM...
Are but the CHAINS...
The CHAINS wrapped in FREEDOM's ragged clothes.
Not only this but even more the IRONY...
Their wrath, their wrathing screams...
Are not the cries of FREEDOM...
Only the woeful moans of their shackled humanity
They are not blind...
For yes they SEE
They SEE the scars these CHAINS do leave
They are not numb...
For yes they FEEL
They FEEL the wounds left to rot in perpetuity
But yet they SEE...
But yet they SEE not...
For these CHAINS lay hidden from their eyes
In the lies, they were born into...
And the ones they bought into...
For what the eye can't SEE
Is what a person no longer needs.
For what is FREEDOM?
About the Creator
Thane Hounchell
Philosopher of folly, bitter foe of cats, and the proud father of one amazing lil man.
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