They say we are free.
Free to bark, if no one listens.
Free to scribble, if no one prints.
Free to inhale, if it doesn’t cost too much.
This is not anthem.
This is not lament.
This is autopsy.
Let the ink blister the page
for those whose stories
were throttled before sunrise.
Let the silence rupture into
a thunderclap of what should have been...
Judas of the Womb
Her name was reduced to a whisper.
Her death, a technicality.
She died of sepsis? No!
She died of legislation—
the sanctified paralysis of law.
Izabela.
Thirty years haunted by patriarchy.
Twenty-two weeks into a doomed gestation.
One human life overwritten
by a cluster of cells wrapped in legalese.
“They’ll wait until it dies,” she wrote,
"Or I will."
She did.
The state shrugged.
Three men in coats clutched
their degrees like shields.
Guilty, but not too guilty.
Penalized, but not inconvenienced.
And somewhere behind a mahogany desk,
a BBC editor ticked the
"Do Not Disturb Poland" box.
Because truth, like radiation,
is best contained to domestic fallout.
The Jester Beheaded by Branding
He made them laugh.
He made them uncomfortable.
Then he made them look at themselves.
That was the mistake.
He survived presidents.
But not the quarterly earnings report.
The axe did not fall.
It slid.
No cancellation. Just de-prioritization.
No outrage. Just polite press releases
and quiet exits.
The revolution will not be televised.
It was tested poorly with key demographics.
Soft Guillotines
Not fire.
Just foam padding and soft lighting.
No jail.
Just "violated community guidelines."
No riot gear.
Just Terms of Service.
They won’t stop you.
They’ll just stop broadcasting you.
They’ll hide you in the cellar of the algorithm,
behind un-skippable ads and SEO oblivion.
Your words are welcome—
as long as they sell soap.
Your outrage is valid—
if it fits in a drop-down menu.
The Global Echo
Warsaw, Manhattan, Manila, Paris.
Different names for the same soft boot.
The same velvet rope
around the neck
of the narrative.
They don’t ban the voices.
They dilute them.
Filter them.
Render them un-shareable,
un-searchable, un-fundable.
We live in a marketplace of ideas,
where truth competes
with cat videos and loses.
The Hollowing
When liberty must pass through a monetization filter,
it is not liberty.
When satire must first clear advertising compliance,
it is not satire.
When journalism fears its own clicks,
when editors redact themselves,
when profit margins call the morning meetings—
we are not in a democracy...
We are in a theme park of tolerated dissent.
The Sliver of Soil
But still—yes, still.
There are cracks in the concrete,
uncatalogued by surveillance,
unpolished by PR.
In those fractures, we gather.
Not to shout—but to build.
Not to trend—but to outlast.
We will forge our voices into chisels.
We will scratch our stories into steel.
We will be inconvenient.
Unprofitable.
Relentless.
So write what they won’t publish.
Speak what they won’t air.
Sing the verses
that sour their brand strategy.
And if we rise, not in hashtags,
But in habit—
not in virality, but in volume—
not in fury, but in fidelity—
then liberty may yet bloom.
Not fast.
Not free.
But truly ours.