freedom’s koan 10/20/18

you cannot look at freedom

and have a context as framing it

otherwise this freedom 

is only an experience of escape

as much as familiarity 

is a slow form of suicide

so slow as if to not see it coming

or fear for its approach

freedom has to have no meaning

otherwise it is a tourist activity

you go there with expectations

pro or con

and comparative truth is your guide

can’t live there

as if totally unqualified

as if a spoof of the absolute

and if forced to live there

substantive attempts are only made 

to recreate the past

as if to escape 

from the free-fall of freedom

since orientation has no backup

and nothing definite can impinge

motivation is strictly nostalgia revisited

memory is vivid longings reoccurring

now keeps having no transit as means

respect has no lifespan to endow

the brain is only giddy with impulse

one is tongue-tied 

with presumptions’ false concerns

cause and effect seem to have no audience

eventfulness perceived is a bother

since only action-packed ‘nothing’ happens like that

and we can’t catch an edge to perceive

freedom is only a concept designed for venting

its only language is originated 

from steeps of definitional confines

freedom is the angst response 

from reality’s restraining-order ongoing

the only freedom to claim

is to discover multidimensional diversity 

as the manifest of oneness through you 

as freedom’s koan 

yet to be resolved . . .