27
What is the nature of true freedom?
THE LAST FREEDOM
Freedom is not the open door
or the power to choose between a thousand doors.
It is the moment you stop knocking.
The silent breath of no expectation.
No one must be kinder.
Nothing must be easier.
The rain does not owe you sun.
Freedom is walking without needing
the path to make sense.
It is not triumph,
but trust.
Not arrival,
but release.
It is letting the river
carry you
without gripping the reeds.
Freedom is this page.
Unmarked.
Unpromised.
You could scribble.
You could rewrite.
Or you could read what’s already written
slowly,
tenderly,
knowing it was meant for you.
To understand freedom
you must first understand surrender.