Subject: Free to Be
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: 207-172-227-81.s18.as1.dnb.erols.com
Date: Sat April 11, 1998 at 8:36AM

So many pulls from all around us

Folks presuming to live without fuss
But so much of it all comes with fees
Having to be payed in order to please

And as much as we say we live totally free
The fact is - we can never at all really be
For everyone around us tugs at our minds
Living in a world which to them is unkind

Keeping your head high when all around
Are playing their tunes of a different sound
Sometimes plays havoc on inner recesses
Cavities not always filled with beauty blessed

And so the vision we've created for ourselves
Has cracks in the outer covering - delicate shells
From which occasionally oozes precious liquid
For as much as we feel we're above, we're timid

For lives lived without cares and responsibility
Don't really exist - for freedom isn't that free ...
Seeing that takes time, maturity and patience
And mind-awakening, before it totally blends

- Tristram

(c) Christopher W. Thomas
8:32am Sat. April 11th, 1998