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Born ...
We are born into slavery
that much is clear to me
but at the same time, amazingly,
we're also born free.
Published 24th Mar 2017
| Edited 7th Mar 2024
Author's Note
To celebrate my grand-daughter, born yesterday afternoon.
A long version of this poem can be found here: https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/383171-born-free/
(photo credit: danijel-durkovic-QOSb_iH9Uas-unsplash)
A long version of this poem can be found here: https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/383171-born-free/
(photo credit: danijel-durkovic-QOSb_iH9Uas-unsplash)
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First, congratulations on the birth of your Grandprecious!!! May her life be blessed with much love and happiness! 👶 🍼
Secondly, I've thought along this vein many times, Josh. I enjoyed the double-entendre of this one very much.
As Spiritual beings and as laborers, we are imprisioned yet free. But that is the very experience we chose to taste.
Secondly, I've thought along this vein many times, Josh. I enjoyed the double-entendre of this one very much.
As Spiritual beings and as laborers, we are imprisioned yet free. But that is the very experience we chose to taste.
24th Mar 2017 7:23pm
Thank you for the blessing. To me it is definitely a case of 'both/and'; the trick is finding that inner sense of freedom within an 'enslaved set-up'.
24th Mar 2017 12:36pm
Congratulations Josh. How truly wonderful:)
Thank you for sharing this. It speaks truth to me as I am currently working on something related to women's freedom.
Thank you for sharing this. It speaks truth to me as I am currently working on something related to women's freedom.
24th Mar 2017 7:28pm
Thank you; I wonder how she will experience the next wave of feminism. The narrative of science-politics-religion-history etc is so male-thinking oriented, not least in the warring attitude towards the ecology.
24th Mar 2017 4:41pm
24th Mar 2017 7:31pm
Thank you for your special words. (have just been texted her name is to be Eva Lily - sounds like a star already to me)
24th Mar 2017 4:47pm
You put such a positive spin on this, and for good reason :-)
congratulations :-)
congratulations :-)
24th Mar 2017 9:15pm
Hi David, thanks for your kind words. Millennia of religious/political tyranny can only be undone in one way (to my mind) which is to figure out how we can live our inherent freedom.
