What It Means To Be Free

Tell me,

Who of you knows what it means to be free?

To have uncontrolled liberty

The right to be

And be anything you please

To choose your degree of safety

To place down your loyalty

With those you know deserve it truly

To speak how you believe

To believe what you can see

Or to believe in the unseen

To chase the dream

To say what you mean

And never have to come clean

Or apologize for your honesty

Or your beliefs or your policies

To design your morality

Define your mortality

Shape your own reality

With no need of permission from anybody

To choose your victories

Handle your defeats and catastrophes

To lay out the boundaries of your autonomy

To let no one take away your sovereignty

To choose to be happy