Free

And if we abandon our daily duties

Float slowly to the place we all belong

With a pause and a rush

We’re on our way—we’re already gone

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No footsteps mark the way

But people have come before us

They left traces of the feeling of freedom

Behind them, and it guides us

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With a breath and a calm

We’re on our way, and what a feeling

A glimpse of clear skies

We are finally healing

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And we’ve up and left like this before

Shoes barely skimming the floor

Because every time we’ve had our fill

We want more

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Clean air, when we had been choked

By the things we want to leave behind

Try to loosen the grasp, but it comes back

Until we go and get ourselves undefined

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We want to be free

Our true calling calls us, can you hear?

Ignore it or follow it into a dream

There’s nowhere to be but here

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Inspiration:

Lately, the pace of normal life, of all the things I have to do, are weighing me down. So I wrote a poem about freedom—freedom from the weight of necessities.

Explanation:

This poem is about wanting to go and be joyful, if only for a short time. Running away from “daily duties”. And while you can argue that our normal, mundane duties are important, of course they are, we all want to go away and be happy. And we always want more of that peaceful, free feeling (Because every time we’ve had our fill/We want more).

Also, it mentions letting go of burdens that may be connected to daily life (…we had been choked/By the things we want to leave behind/Try to loosen the grasp, but it comes back).

This poem really highlights escaping all of the pressure and obligations, and just feeling at peace. Doing things you want to be doing. A selfish thought? No. We’re not here on this earth to not feel happy, after all. What a horrible life that would be.

Thanks for reading! If you like this, check out more of my poetry posts!