A/N: Someone asked for an angsty Jin poem… so I figured, I've written for requests before, why not try again?  I'm not sure about this one yet… it hasn't left a full impression, good or bad, on me, so far.  I think it's decent enough to post, so go on and read it, let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: Ok, I don't own it.  Really, I don't.  I keep forgetting this little thing on my poetry… I'm expecting those big lawyer dorks to come after me anytime… 

Freedom's Chains

Just a bit of freedom is all I really ask

A small piece of the world for my own

Somewhere where I can just be me

No false pretences ruling the days.

Some would say that to fly is to be free

They don't really know what this is like

The air is my world, a thing I can control

Though through its mastery all I gain are shackles.

One would think that flying through the air so high

Would give me some peace of mind

That's why I go, why I try, in the end

But all I ever find is the length of the rope.

To be free is to have chains of a different kind

To live and fly is to have your wings clipped

Try to reach the freedom, lying just outside my grasp

All I can feel is the cuffs; they keep me on the ground.

My body may soar to heights unimagined

But inside my heart and soul are constrained

To that cord that stretches so far down

I can never be free to fly with these chains on me.

Every time I fly away, every time I float off

The farther I get from this world of betrayal and pain

The more of it flies off with me to remind me

That I will never be a part of it.

It seems no matter how far I go

To the ends of the universe and back again

I will never be rid of the knowledge that I don't belong

Knowing everything that I will never have in this life.

If that is the liberty I have, I don't want it

I'd rather not know what I can never receive.

The only thing that brings me is pain

A pain that binds my heart like a vise. 

So this freedom I can dream of

Keep track of it so far from my reach

I watch it fly so loftily away from me

It has no chains of its own, only those on me.

Just a bit of freedom is all I really ask

A small piece of peace in the world for my own

Somewhere where all my these chains can fall away

And I can finally be free to fly.

I can soar all I want, dip and dive and roll and glide

All these things are allowed, my body can move

It's merely my spirit trapped within this reach

Given the freedom to fly, still bound to its chains.

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A/N: Good enough?  Review, please, if it sucked, PLEASE flame me, I think I need a smack in the face about now, it'd be the only way to feel anything…

-Draith