Freedom [Free Verse]

He who would know freedom
 must be ready for the fall,
  ready to be untethered.

Freedom is not 
 floating on a cloud;

  it's riding the rapids down, 
   trying to get one's feet first, 
    so that one breaks a leg --
     and not a skull --
      on the rocks.

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