The personal experiences we bring to a piece of writing make it meaningful to each of us in different ways... These two stanzas had particular meaning to me, as I see my son feeling that he is imprisoned by rules.
Blinded by a fog,
Mired in life's bog,
We fight to rise and fail,
Raise our arms and rail
At this imagined prison
we perceive, at all
the vast illusions
we believe.
I have come to believe that as long as rules exist, my son will never be happy...thinking that his free spirit is in jeopardy. And all the while I wish he could see that rules actually set us free... they water us down so that, as liquid, we can escape the confines of the prison bars.
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Blinded by a fog,
Mired in life's bog,
We fight to rise and fail,
Raise our arms and rail
At this imagined prison
we perceive, at all
the vast illusions
we believe.
I have come to believe that as long as rules exist, my son will never be happy...thinking that his free spirit is in jeopardy. And all the while I wish he could see that rules actually set us free... they water us down so that, as liquid, we can escape the confines of the prison bars.
Cryssa