11/26/2024  ||  5:42 PM

What’s it like to be free?

Freedom is being confronted with situations that would’ve once crushed you

And with such ease, being able to keep walking past them.

Freedom is overhearing the murmurs and assumptions that used to once afflict you

And no longer being moved to try to prove yourself or change

No longer trying to convince anyone of who you are or are not.

Freedom is looking back at the things you used to desire with so much fervor

But could not ever attain

And seeing them for what they truly were

Mere embodiments of options

A reminder to you that there will always be more.

It’s seeing the opportunities you thought were your big breaks

And realizing the tides they make are no longer able to sweep you off your feet

They are only able reach the ankles

Of who chasing them forced you to become.