Most Expensive Thing To Be

What is free?
Was it the chains on my, ancestors feet?
To be free? 
If caught was the risk of, getting beat,
Free?
The cheapest word with a, fee,
Free?
There's the lottery then homeless who, never eat,
To Be free?
Does this mean Rosa Parks can, keep her seat?
What is free? 
The cost of a dollar i'd never see.

FREE?
The most expensive to be...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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