What is freedom, to breathe, to talk, and to travel?
Oh how we took for granted those past years:
What is freedom summer, here in America?
Where we can still purchase a bottle of cold coke cola for a dollar
But wouldn’t be able to sit on the stoop with friends
Just sipping, and chatting away.
Thinking of a time in history when
**Freedom summer was a nonviolent effort by
civil rights activists to
integrate Mississippi's segregated
political, system during 1964.**
A poet who knows her history is exceptional
Poets words can sometimes comes off as gossip column
What is freedom?
In 2020 without the interference of
Other countries, city or states…. or the faces of
heart breaking stories of missing persons….
Who took a stroll or jog through the wrong street
And end up in the news while they were
trespassing in Karen’s neighborhood
What is freedom: not to be cage,
Not to be muffled and not to be Taser by the police:
What is freedom summer of 2020 in New York City.
Limited!
Complicated!
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020 at 2:26 PM UTC
What is freedom, to breathe, to talk, and to travel?
Oh how we took for granted those past years:
What is freedom summer, here in America?
Where we can still purchase a bottle of cold coke cola for a dollar
But wouldn’t be able to sit on the stoop with friends
Just sipping, and chatting away.
Thinking of a time in history when
**Freedom summer was a nonviolent effort by
civil rights activists to
integrate Mississippi's segregated
political, system during 1964.**
A poet who knows her history is exceptional
Poets words can sometimes comes off as gossip column
What is freedom?
In 2020 without the interference of
Other countries, city or states…. or the faces of
heart breaking stories of missing persons….
Who took a stroll or jog through the wrong street
And end up in the news while they were
trespassing in Karen’s neighborhood
What is freedom: not to be cage,
Not to be muffled and not to be Taser by the police:
What is freedom summer of 2020 in New York City.
Limited!
Complicated!
Freedom always come with a price
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