Michael Damian

Life in Freedom

Give up your time, give up your life.

Give up the dream of not doing the laundry.

Do it, fold it while it’s warm, and rejoice.

Now you are free for the evening, and love

starts making little movements of liberation

and chains start breaking for the joy of that motion.

Like chains dragging chains we struggle

and hurt too much, so let’s drop the whole

weary business of holding on and holding out.

Carrying things around makes us t...

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