If a mind! ! !
(Whose mind-
you whisper a curious
and plaintive plea?
that mind over there-
just beyond the next horizon
of impending doom and despair)
scuds blissfully thence -from here to there
without torturous-nagging doubt of lurking-calamity
burdened not with hideously frightening -expectation,
nor stricken with insufferable agony unrestrained
or hostage held by any of the
myriad of vicissitudes in being
ever constant- and sublimely unpleasant
But instead is graciously permitted
freedom-lavished total and unrestrained
and too pleasantly abundant
will after a long while or a short bit
likely find itself stranded
and brought to idle-
in a most confining space
a perplexing and quite wearisome place
Isabelle Cooper
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-pursuit-of-freedom/
