Bound To Be Free

Freedom always comes at such a price
As ones’ who’ve covenanted by sacrifice
How difficult to go through the Camel’s Gate
For all baggage is emptied of ones’ slate

Whatever we yield our members to “we are bound”
There’s Peace, Vision, and Rest in God, to be found
While dramatic actors fine only love-hate scenarios
Attention getting ways make ‘news,’ heard on radios

Golden frames, assimilating freedom, fade in time
Freedom starts within, not without, a process like wine
A chrysalis is a worm before it’s in its confined stage
Believers humble themselves in the face of known rage

Author notes

Matthew II:12 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." http://www.bartleby.com/108/40/11.html

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

"They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty." - Kahlil Gibran

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my
darkness."--Psalm 18:28