Remove the Shackles

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It’s time to remove

the shackles.

The angel at your left ear

finally reports:

“The bindings have reached

their expiration date.”

Free your Self.

You are not the property

of others,

of culture,

of dogma,

of your limiting beliefs and fears.

Stop volunteering

to wilt in the dungeon.

Let the gallows be nothing

more than a guano-encrusted pigeon perch.

Give the heavy, cold chains

that have weighed you down

back to the wounded-child-Master

link by link,

like prayer beads

intended for a long meditation

on compassion.

Refrain from thrashing

yourself

with shame

for where you have been.

Instead,

release yourSelf to live,

from this moment forward,

in communion with

empathy and joy.

Turn towards the

tens of millions still bodily

enslaved

and so many more

indentured in soul.

Become an abolitionist

of what no longer serves.

I know,

You now know

how to set

Humanity

free.

© 2010-2011/Jamie K. Reaser

Published in "Note to Self: Poems for Changing the World from the Inside Out" (www.hiraethpress.com)