Just Remember: Freedom's Not a Given

July 4, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day, in honor of Independence Day (USA), which falls on July 4.

Today’s poem is an Independence Day poem about the nature of freedom.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Just remember: Freedom’s not a given.

Understand that it could disappear,

Lost to insecurity and fear,

Yielding to some messianic vision.

Freedom is not simply what it seems:

One might be free to pray but not to eat;

Unrestricted where one might compete,

Restricted where one’s class defines one’s dreams.

To survive, freedom must be more

Habitation than just open door.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/justre.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Independence Day.

July 4: Just Remember: Freedom’s Not a Given