Nothing Is Free but Love

Nothing Is Free but Love

I’ve been taught that the ancestors—
Does it matter who they’re?
Have fought like savages
Just for the future generation to be free
And have no fee to pay.
But that freedom has been ridiculed…

Some say the fee is paid in full,
And some disagree saying it’s half.
Some others say the fee for freedom
And all those “supports” are still due…
Unfortunately, they say it’s due with interests.
And others say it’s all a myth.

And some strangers say:
Nothing is free but love.
Yes, I say too.
Well, it’s really a sad sardonic story
That can be found in many books,
In the library, in the non-fiction section.

I’ve been taught that the tree of freedom
That is said to be a mythical story,
Won’t die for its roots are many
And the tree’s trunk will grow
And keep growing branches and branches…
I’ve learned that that freedom’s a treasure to be cherished.

—Dick M. Joe Trio
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