Freedom is…
what exactly?
As long as it doesn’t hurt someone
too badly, you should be able to quietly
reason and debate
like civilised human beings
the wrongs and rights of a situation
without thinking that someone
is going to need counselling, freedom
to believe and say that someone
aiming to copyright a gesture
on stage or a phrase by a pretty girl,
or even a year,
is nothing more than money
talking over common sense,
the oh look at me, I can do anything I please
because I am rich and famous…please
get a life.
Freedom is to be able to call the President
a fool, the Prime Minister an ass and
a man with an ego on his silver plated throne
a nonsense.
What is freedom anyway
in a world where your every facial tic
or stuttered word is snapped and
shared to try to shame and score points
on hungry social media;
what is freedom,
to me it understanding
that nobody wants to say hello
and that is O.K.
Ian D. Hall 2017