Are You Controlling or Free?

 

STEPPING AWAY FROM CONTROL TOWARDS FREEDOM

What is control?
Some may say it is order,
Some will say it is love,
That they know best,
That you are incompetent,
That you are wrong,
You need help,
It comes in many guises and masks,
Yet it is the disguise of powerlessness,
Parading as power.

Gandhi spoke of nonviolence,
He spoke of noncooperation with evil,
He was not seeking to rebel,
But repel patterns of control,
By asserting self determination,
Empowering self respect,
That never seeks to replace the tyrant,
But to create a new social contract,
Based on the love of truth,
For he saw truth as god.

Jesus was not right wing,
He was a free radical,
Who sought to show the world to itself,
And through his own suffering he paved a new way,
For the way of love and peace is without controls,
For always he said

“Love your neighbor as you love yourself”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Blessed are the peacemakers”
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth”.

 How can they inherit the earth if it is owned and every corner controlled?

They are the salt of the earth,
A light unto the world,
Knowing the essence is life itself,
For in humility one can see to look into the nature of the world book,
To find there are no national boundaries prohibiting freedom,
The earth a veritable Garden of Eden
A Tree of Life,
And the gift of good and evil,
Is in the choice,
For this is how truth is manifested in life itself.

We have built a world on this premise of control as order,
And called it democracy,
We have designed hierarchy as lines of control,
And called it management,
We have attached authority to roles,
And called it legitimate power,
Yet one is the master who controls,
And the other is the servant who complies without question,
For there is no clause stating ‘freedom of speech’ in a job description,
As those who don’t comply are unemployable or disloyal,
As they are silently excluded outside the rhetoric
of social inclusion.

We have chosen to be seen to be,
As pretence creates shifting impressions in the sands of time,
Rather than the authenticity as indelible as stone,
We have inflated ones market worth through income and status,
And called class ‘success’,
We have diminished ones value through social failure and poverty,
And called it ‘loser’,
Yet we all lose when inequality is the modus operandi of social control,
For we have never known true community,
As real family,
For democracy is freedom of speech,
And respect values all views equally in fairness,
Holding the scales of Liberty in balance,
Blind to falsehood,
Speaking not of disempowerment,
Unable to hear voices of division,
For honesty as fairness is the eternal flame,
A Question and Answer of power sharing,
Listening to hear rather than speak,
Speaking to understand then to be understood,
Seeing healthy love as the silent spring,
That revitalises a renewable earth
in harmony.

The time of power and control is ending,
Freedom of speech is the phoenix,
As communication facilitates the healthy exchange of ideas,
Breaks down the illusion of power as control,
Questioning the Emperors,
For they have no clothes,
When naked before truth and reconciliation,
For always it was the truth that sets us free from Dante’s fire,
Arriving as the clarion call of freedom,
Breaks the bondage of control by speaking up with conscience,
Communicating in the language of openness without censure or defence,
For pretence is the mask of silent aggression,
Crafting tools of control that seek to deny reality,
Yet reality is what is so,
And to question what you know,
Leads you to the door of higher knowledge,
The seat of true power,
Finding love is the answer,
To thine own self be true,
For how can you be false,
When you see the other as yourself,
And these were always the steps towards
freedom.

Mohandas Gandhi

“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong”

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