Freddie Robinson Jr. Poet Dramatic Verse

The Night Freedom Died

Heritage enclaves of my memory
dissolved away ...
Disappeared the night my freedom died
I woke up the next day,
		my liberty completely necroticized
Seeing my new reality
		     thru dead tyranny zombie eyes
No more freewill;
just a mindless shuffling along,
doing whatever the public broadcast loudspeaker says
Eating maggots of putrid propaganda
	rotting in empty kiosks
The whole democratic terrain
looking like burnt out, overturned dumpster bins
Trash of former protests strewn everywhere:
		Posters, T-shirts, lots of trinkets
Sad scenes of survivalists giving suicide embraces
	to each other in CDC issued blankets
A virulent strain of fascism has swept the land,
a democracy eating pestilence 
Airborne swirls of tattered newspaper — 
remnants of an extinct free press,
	drifts windward towards the sky
As I look uncaring 
	with dead tyranny zombie eyes,
having no recollection of the day before
Not remembering the night my freedom died

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Dave Timperley July 20, 2017 at 11:57 AM Hey, Freddie, you have addressed today with such clarity. I feel that we are living/existing sometimes in the End Times. I have faith in that God will turn this around. My prayer is that He will do it sooner rather than later. I want to enjoy my personal end times. Great write. God Bless. D.

Daniel Turner July 14, 2017 at 7:57 AM I'm with Carol on this one Freddie, Repentance is our only hope. God have mercy on our souls. Deep thought provoking write.

Eve Roper July 13, 2017 at 5:12 PM Interesting write, Freddie, the Media is something I stay away from it is like watching what are end is going to be.. I am still in fantasy land..

Chris Green July 13, 2017 at 10:03 AM You forgot to start this by saying, "Previously on AMC's The Walking Dead". :) A futuristic look at the fate of the world as seen through the eyes of the mainstream media. I just can't understand why their ratings aren't higher. :) Dark and frightening my friend.

Heidi Sands July 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM So well said Freddie and so sad. It has helped me not to watch the news for a while now :)