A Free Fool – 16th January 2026

Chained to the shadows of reality, dancing on the wall

The prisoner is set free from ignorance
To see the truth that it was never real at all

Returning to the shadows and facing ridicule
Freedom is just a philosophical fancy
There is little difference between the fooler and the fool

A cherita shared with W3 #194 – prompt word: cave and channelling Plato’s Cave.

Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Never Do Anything Out Of Habit

All our old ideas are in a box marked ‘habit’
They must be true but we’ve forgotten why
Our rote behaviours lead to mindlessness
And so it came to be as the time went by