BELIEFS
The last and most insidious addiction
Is to this idea that something
Is wrong with me.
As long as I believe this is so,
I am compelled to fix myself,
My life becomes a desperate search for sanity
As soon as I surrender
This false idea, this utter lie-
I am free;
Free to soar amongst the eagles,
Free to frolic with the dolphins,
Free to splash colors onto canvases,
Free to sing in strange places
(Like grocery stores),
Dance to the mailbox,
And laugh,
Laugh at all this irony,
Laugh at just how mad we all are.
We are slaves to the most constraining beliefs;
Why not choose
To imprison ourselves
With beliefs
That set us free?
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." - Fredrick Douglass
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