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This Cage That We've Named "Free Will"

Wind carries whispers arrayed, But never is it screaming. The wisp that calls, lives betrayed, Unheard is its true meaning. Bound to its fateful flowing forever. Its flowing has never failed. A sacred truth is buried within. Within what? It never can tell. Mountainous structures stand strong, These relics are deemed eternal, As time passes, the layers form masses. They keep record of nature’s journal. The bitter truth is etched in stone. Carved deep in their being, Yet tethered to fate, to constantly wait. Cursed with never leaving. Like the ocean’s mighty sway, That never truly moves. Seemingly more boundless than me, It's built to traverse in set grooves. Violent waves displaying a mask, For It rises only to recoil. An infinite realm of life contained, To never feel the soil. The sun will rise, set, then rise. A fate with no fate at all. It treads a path to live and last, It will not and can never fall. It soars above, an ode freedom, Yet a slave to this deception, For in its path, it’s truly shackled, To this common misconception. The grand clock's, a steady unwinding, That's never completely unwound. Delaying or pausing is not an option, Losing every minute it passes. The hands of time that hold the scroll, Unallowed to write its own plot, Emotions within its constant tick tock, Expressing a purpose that's wrought. As metaphysical body's walk. They think, they feel, the react. Emotions lay open, demand to be spoken, As our minds expand to retract. My conscious holds a truth, untrue. For a lie is so deeply instilled. We breathe to consume, from cradle to tomb, In this cage that we've named "Free Will."
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QuantumPoet
34 / M / Springfield, MO
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Written by
QuantumPoet
34 / M / Springfield, MO
Published
Apr 1, 2025
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#freewill#freedom#unfree#existentialism#predestination#human#experience#philisophical#metaphors#natural
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