Context, Independent

The practical problems of "simple" and "true"

Are just the beginning of freeing our wills.

Beyond choice and conscience, and consequence too,

Is context, which underlies, backstops and fills.

We're creatures of context, it makes all the rules,

And though you can change it, it can't be removed,

It brings us our boundaries, gives us our tools;

Without it, no logical fact can be proved.

The problem with context is, so much depends

On context-based matters, we simply can't bring

Control of our choices or meeting our ends

Outside of it: context includes everything.

The limits our bodies face bind us with air

And shelter and water, and movement and scale,

Till prospects for freedom of choice seem unfair,

Yet choose free, we must, lest humanity fail.

All of this points to the fact that we strive

To be limit-free, independent and whole

Unhindered by context, so free will can thrive;

The practical upshot of this is the soul.

So, once again, logic just doesn't suffice

To prove or conclude we have souls that are free

From context's requirements and entropy's price,

Yet free will demands it, inevitably.