Like love

Like love                                                                                                         
 
Freedom of a sort is belief in an ironclad destiny –
leaving one with little to contest;
 
relieved of the onus (if not the habit)
of evaluation – approval or censure.
 
The idea of free will is intrinsically
bound to the idea of human autonomy
 
with its associated errors, sins, failures and regrets.  
Like love itself, faith in destiny sets one free from judgment,
 
holding no one, none of us, responsible
for our human nature, for the karma we’ve inherited
 
and for who in ignorance and illusion
we have taken ourselves and others to be.
 
O child of God, your perceptions are threatening
to turn your whole world upside down.