Freedom Within

        How free the Hawk
         Who at height of Heaven
        Flings himself in flight,
            But his high flights has first to start
             Not in the sky, but in his heart.

        Likewise with me,
       How shall I find
             Freedom if not found within my mind,
               And learn as thought by thought I try,
               That I may fall, yet I can fly,
                And even sometimes rise up free
                 Beyond the highest heights of me.

                Written by James Dillet Freeman