I have a distant memory of
a time and place I called free
drinking and smoking
to escape what I call me
in this memory
I use to know how to be free
I knew just what I needed
but,through change & recovery
I lost the old tendency to know what is free
an inclination of that emptiness
unsure of what I'm suppose to be
in this memory
I knew how to say and tell myself
"I shall be free"
in the experience of living every day
change needs somewhere to go
change needs something to be
change needs something to convert to
adjustment to a new reality
free has to mean something different
free has to transform
free of the need to be free
when freedom is defined
the power to determine action
without restraint or to be confined
within this memory
I now know
what free really means
I wasn't free at all
depending on
drugs & alcohol
escape artist
how I spent my time
nothing to call mine
friends & drug buddies
blind leading the blind
in these modern times
freedom is hope
hope is a higher power
like the great creator
or something profound in nature
now I have hope for me
narrow pathway to recovery
recovery and a chance to change
change: the very nature of the universe
without change there would be no evidence of life
life:power of adaptation
a state of adjustment
of my view of reality
amenable to understanding
I have to accept myself
recognise the changes
believe that freedom is my hope
hope is reality
my hope is real to me
within my newfound meaning of free
free is something to be
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