What On Earth Is Freedom? Poem by Denis Martindale

What on Earth is freedom?
We each have expectations of each other,
Perhaps in hoping for fair play, one to the other.
On another level, consider emotional baggage.
It is something that we get used to,
In that we carry it around with us,
It is there with us, wherever we travel,
Even in our present and future relationships.
How may we be free of the memories?

And yet, what is Man's greatest freedom?
It is not merely living in the here and now,
Or in doing anything and everything we like,
But doing what God likes for us and through us.
As mortal beings, we do not know all truths,
We do not understand God's mysteries...
Should we not be more trusting in the One who does?

The poet's freedom is poetic licence,
The choosing of the words, as free as you like,
But when offering the poetry to the world,
Perhaps with the hopeful eye on posterity,
Ought we not to try to improve ourselves,
To apply more apt words and phrases,
Those considered fitting to the modern day
And even across the world, or the global village?

But if we are all things to all people,
Do we not lose that personal touch
And our perspective of our own culture?
So freedom is not fully freedom, after all.
It is that ever so thin fine line of compromise,
When discretion is the better part of valour,
To please some of the people some of the time...
But why try to do that with our Creator, too?
Without His Kingdom Freedom, pray tell me,
What use is freedom at all?


Denis Martindale, copyright June 2014.


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