Of Course, You Are Free Poem by RIC BASTASA

how can we agree
on that same point: i am free

and you are free. Free from what?
and of what? and free for what?

i am free
to do good, to only do what
is essential for my
essence
as man, as individual,
as
the servant of
God,

once i twist what i am
once when i stray away from the Light
once when i do what negates myself
my true nature
i am no longer free. I am bound.
And what i will be thinking is
to escape and return
from that space called
freedom

i am free from evil.
I am free of limitations.
I am free for divinity

which awaits me at the end
of this journey

for i am but a journey
a road

i have a destination
where i will be at rest forever

i am for perfection. I am what i ought to be.
I am this must. This imperative.

I am being.