Aye, living & achieving freedom

requires an openness to vulnerability,

to taste fear & persevere.

 

There are those that would take away

our liberty & even our life.

Nothing is free, we pay dearly even just to breathe.

 

It takes guts and determination,

then finally we become aware

of who we truly are;

 

veterans & survivors,

mad but alive,

trading fear for freedom:

 

Unrelenting explorers --

Trekking the unknown

Explorers of lives yet to be lived.

 

 

 

 

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