On Liberty

She said, 
'I am a vessel
For a love with no borders
Unanimity of patience
And reasonable tolerance
No subversion will coerce my action
No coercion will subvert my thought'

I stood in awe of the brazen dissentient
And so I removed my tacit consent
None over another is deserving commandant
And my being was roused by such bold sentiment

She said, 
'To speak of freedom 
In the discourse of this system
Is to speak of the freedom to conform and contort
My patience and tolerance finds its reasonable ending 
At disingenuous constructs for the confinement of thought'

For a while I was silent
Contemplating my own mind
Till my own mind through reason compelled me to demand
'We have not disappeared
You mutilators of nature
We believers of liberty innate in the man'

© John Lowndes 2014
Image © Chantelle Valentin 2015, based on 'Liberty leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix.

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