The Rebel Soul

 

Grady McMurtry

 

 

Disembodied, floating free,

Swept above the windy hills,

Lashing at the rolling sea,

Fleeing where the spirit wills,

 

A soul unleashed across the world

To speed its way, with freedom full

It leaps, its outstretched tendrils coiled

To rip and rend; a cyclone bull.

 

It has no ties that bind to earth,

It knows no bonds to hold its form,

But writhes and twists and howls its mirth

And has its being in the storm.

 

Upon its thought there is no reign

Upon its heart there is no hold;

An entity in joyous strain

That knows IT IS, so can be bold.

 

 

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