Wild Woman On Freedom

Crone with Cane, Pointing the Way

As you know,

Wild Woman has

quite a lot to say

about freedom.

Likely because she had to 

claw her way out of bondage

more than once

in order to find it.

She'll spare you the details:

the abuse,

the alcoholic conman

who burned down her store,

the emotional attraction

to emotionally unavailable men.

Suffice it to say,

Wild Woman's spirit

has always retreated

and walled itself off

during trauma,

thus permitting

her naturally optimistic nature,

(and her cackle),

to surface and resurface

after each

devastating debacle.

They sang "Freedom's 

just another word

for nothing left to lose"

and they were right

about the "nothing".

But the regaining

of solitude,

and peace,

and no more drama

is a freedom

beyond price.

Peacefulness

is Wild Woman's

pearl of pearls.

At Poets United's Verse First today, Kim has set us another inspiring prompt : to say what freedom means to us. Toni Morrison's quote is given: "the function of freedom is to free someone else." This must be why Wild Woman writes : having been through the fire, she hopes to help her younger sisters make their own escapes.