Society's Shackles

I grew up and forgot who I was.
Born true, enlightened, endangered in my individuality.
Approve of me fake, prejudiced and safe in my societal hologram.
Shedding the layers within,
Shunning the person within. I blend.

Live as others live, be as others expect one to be.
Think differently and soon enough voices of ‘reason’ rush.
Haunting the voice within, only to replace it with theirs.
Conflict, depression, anger, fighting, death. Silence and space. Over and over.
Normalcy, everywhere. I conform.

Silenced murmurs I feel creeping into my conscious, my raison-d’être I question.
Where is my truth? Who am I? Who are you that is living my life?
The me, that is not I, is ok, is ‘good’, fits.
Repression, suppression, oppression. Constructs, limits, labels.
SHACKLES. In close echo, SOCIETY.

The me that is I screams. Difference, eternity, vision.
Blinded by light, humbled by beauty, touched by grace.
God. One-ness.
Dancing on the trees of life, floating in the suspended sky, I fear less.
Human or divine. Heart or mind. I or them.

Masses hurried, scattered without a path. Souls eaten.
Engulfed in shame, igniting judgement.
Dwindling inspiration, lights fading.
I’m calling my heart. It’s not answering. Where is intention?
Replacing deception, above the mind, on a higher plane.
People. Fixation. Ceilings. Lowliness in the pull downwards.
Sex, greed, jealousy, conspiracy-pettiness.

Crack open and break free.
Explode into purity.
See health in the ill, wealth in the poor, strength in the weak, completion in the lack.
Ten dimensions, I transcend.
Freedom, I rise above.
Falling, rising. Living, dying, living.

I shall meet You one day, lived as I have believed. Created as I have believed.
Humanity, imperfection, forgiveness and compassion.
Protected by Your Promise.
Seeing You every day.
True only to You.
That’s my contract.

Honouring Your wisdom. Exploiting Your gifts.
I let go, I surrender. To be the truth.
Resist, I shall not. Downsized, I shall not. Shamed, I shall not.
That I will defend. Bless our paths until I return to You.

Sat 7, June 2008