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RE: The Best of Both Worlds - Poem #3 (Welcome to the Sombre Days)
Such a blessing to BE who you are. I spent my childhood trying to please a mother who rejected me and literally threatened to "take me to the orphanage" (I bless her now for the role she played), then I spent 30 years trying to please an unknown God worshipped by a religion that hated me (I was sooooo indoctrinated!), and then 25 years pleasing a spouse, then the majority of my life dancing to cultures demands. Now, at last, I am free! I have learned to love all creatures great and small, all humans in all their dynamic diversity. This gift, this love, was worth all the years of not-Being.
I wouldn't say I'm completely free. I managed to get out of the indoctrination at age 18 or so, even though my mother is extremely religious. Unfortunately, I still deal with letting things go, you know. At times, we might think we're free, but because of that we might be doing the opposite of what we used to, and that may lack freedom in itself, at times/