Poem--Freedom

Can I be true to my soul?
Can I reach beyond the mirage
Of reason and sensibility
To unleash the forces in me?
Can I look beyond the illusion
Of what the world offers me
And see a new dimension—
A vision beyond all dreams?
Can I hear the voices of the Muse
Through the unending cacophony
Of the multitudes surrounding me—
To vibrate to the chords of the music
That the storm and the winds sway to?
Do I dare to free my thoughts
From the confines of ignorant tranquillity
To scale the depths and heights
Of a mighty, restless ocean?
Do I dare to dream
Shattering the horizons of imagination,
Entering a boundless galaxy of eternal truth?
Do I dare to be one
With the potent forces of the Being
And find the person I really am?

Do I dare… to be free?