CHAPTER 180: Freedom

ON FREEDOM

By: Kahlil Gibran

And an orator said, Speak to us of Free-

dom.

And he answered:

At the city gate and by your fireside I

have seen you prostrate yourself and worship

your own freedom,

Even as slaves humble themselves before

a tyrant and praise him though he slays

them.

Ay, in the grove of the temple and in

the shadow of the citadel I have seen the

freest among you wear their freedom as a

yoke and a handcuff.

And my heart bled within me; for you