Now the chains are released,
I am free
Now the bars have ceased,
I am free
Now I walk with my life,
In my hands
Yet I still feel the weight of the rope,
Around my hands
Now there is no routine,
I rest my head
Upon the guillotine,
I rest my head
With no room to confide in,
I am lost
Adjusting to this world that’s been hiding,
I am lost
I hear the calling,
“I am free”
I practise the faith,
‘I am free’ religiously
Freedom is given,
I judged it wrong
My soul is ready to be living,
Must I judge that wrong?
I feel numinous,
The sanctity of life
Something more than human, us,
The sanctity of life
It is freedom I cannot feel,
Freedom I cannot see
But I know, at the end of this exertion,
There is beyond freedom,
Waiting for me.