Freedom Isn't Simply: Do Your Will

August 17, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is free will.

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A philosophical number poem about the paradoxical nature of free will:

Freedom isn’t simply: Do your will.
One wills (or not) within some circumstance,
Restricted by (or not) love, longing, chance,
Training, courage, passion, hunger, skill.
Yet one must freely choose, for good or ill.

Nor can one choose with less constraint than plants,
Intentional as cloves, as daffodils.
Nor can one change the steps that one must dance,
Even as one chooses freely still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Free Will
August 17: Freedom Isn’t Simply: Do Your Will