The Lie of Freedom
We love our jails
They got it made
Three hots, a cot
And lots of shade
No need to work
Nothing to save
No need to bother
With pesky names
We love our caves
So dark and cool
We know the score
We know the rules
What’s real, what’s not
It matters none
Forget the outside
In here’s the fun
We love our chains
Like all good slaves
Say “yes” and “please”
Always behave
The sun is hot
The field is vast
Take solace in
The numbing past
We love our pains
All thru our days
The endless toothache
The bowels ablaze
Complain and wallow
That is our niche
Never to summit
Never too rich
We love our myths
We tell them well
A misty heaven
A murky hell
And if we lose the
Way back to one
We’ll just invent an
Utopia
We love our deaths
Attending wakes
Inventing credits
That no one takes
“Such a hard worker,
A real good friend”
But all the same is
Dirt in the end
We love our failure
Our frailty, too
Maybe our dreams are
Just residue
Maybe it’s true that
We are mistakes
Nature is laughing
God’s taking breaks
And what of freedom?
Who signed that screed?
We learned some stories
Ones who were freed
But who’s the conqueror
Freedom can’t beat?
Thy name, remember:
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Copyright © Keith Dovoric | Year Posted 2022
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