Laws liberate people
more than other texts

the smoother, the more
they are like a clear lake

making the elusive depth
of the sky understandable

but not the separate
laws that are on their own

as poles, that limit
oppress and obstruct

that have given me a life sentence
in the monk land

between Meuse and Waal
where I smooth out legal rules

to world laws that are not after
anything but everyone's freedom

to achieve what one can
contribute to city or country

From a chest, I eat
books, the chest eats me

and takes me to the other side
I flee to my freedom