Let there be ownership

Let there be ownership

Say "Yes" when your slaves arise

Free them, cutting chains apart

that their shackles be pavement

'pon which you toward freedom stride

Take hold of peace

She's yours when lips are pressed

to festering wounds and pallid face

to repressed truths and pilgrim feet

Fire your nerves for noble feats

Unbind yourself from ownership

The owning is of  your self

your prison gates ajar

Look toward the horizon's edge

where suns do set and nights arrive

where days begin and evenings rest

Let there be ownership  

*Thoughts of Alan Jones:

  -It is true that detachment is the key to freedom, but it does have its lighter side.  The humor us not, however, escapist; rather, it is a device to help us take ourselves less seriously.

  -One should not expect to be thanked for encouraging one's fellow pilgrims to thing about death.

  -To one degree or another, we all suffer from a fundamentalist mindset.  It is hard for us to see that truth operates on many levels and comes to is in many forms.

  -A deed is a voluntary act by which the doer discloses (oneself) to others; behavior is involuntary and discloses, not a unique self, but either those natural deeds common to all, or those diagnosable complexes which the patient shares with other sufferers of the same kind.