[quote] Freedom

[wispfox]

Seen on and copied from wolfkitn's journal, here:

I saw a woman sleeping.
In her sleep, she dreamt Life stood before her, and held in each hand a gift;
In the one hand love, in the other freedom.

And She said to the woman, "Choose --"
The woman waited long:
And she said, "Freedom."
And Life said, "Thou hast well chosen. If thou hadst said 'love' I would have given the that thou didst ask for, and I would have gone from thee, and returned to thee no more."
Now, the day will come when I shall return; in that day I shall bear both gifts in one hand."

I heard the woman laugh in her sleep.

-- Olive Schreiner

for the sake of full attribution, it is copyrighted thus:

(c) 1980, RLM/Northland Poster Collective, P.O. Box 7096, Minneapolis, MN 55407

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I haven't needed to make that choice in a while, because those I love give me the freedom I need. Freedom has always tended to win when I had to make that choice, although sometimes it took me a while to make it.

Comments

[entrochan.livejournal.com]

I like this. It actually made me all teary-eyed.