Bare feet on the sand in summer running hard over the hot bits to get to the water quickly the freedom from concrete
climb over the fence after dark stifled laughter private frissons skinny dipping a rite of passage the freedom to be naked
laughter and the camaraderie of long time association friends and confidantes the freedom to be happy
divisions fixed by polarities religious racial ethnic and economic still absolute rights for all the freedom of the first amendment
but still not for a woman’s right to her body not for the terminally ill to die not for political asylum not for driving while black not for gay and LBGT not for equal rights to marry but yet and still the freedom to vote for change