Written by Krislyn Shank (age 17).

Free Indeed

 

You say you are free;
Yet you are bound
To pleasure,
To hate,
To the opinions of your peers.

I say I am bound;
Yet I am free
For service,
For love,
For submission to the will of my God.

And in this my bound liberty,
I am far more free
Than you are
In your liberated bondage.