Dream if you will,
Of a time when freedom,
Was more than a wish beyond iron bars.
Iron bars made by your own hands,
Strengthened with your own fears,
Held in place with your own doubts.
Dream if you will,
Of a time when freedom,
Was more than a distant wish,
In the form of a far away star,
Out of reach for your weakened hand,
Nearly impossible for you to begin to see.
Dream if you will,
Of a time when freedom,
Was still possible.
Freedom from your own condemning mind,
From your self-created damnation,
From your rock solid prison walls.
Dream if you can,
Of freedom.
A word you hardly recognize,
A word you struggle to remember,
Something you once knew outside your prison,
That contains your very soul.
Owns it.
Squeezes it.
Weakens it.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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