No Handouts

Source: kalamu.com

Can we really visualize freedom with a limited point of view?
When it’s normal to feel free in condition imposed on you.
When did freedom become a clause, a cause for a certain sect, race or class?
Something bestowed, a privilege or a formal accommodation?

Freedom isn’t convenience,
A mutual acclimation between persons or groups,
Nor is it a means to simplify, ease or comfort.
Freedom isn’t a handout earned for good behavior.
Freedom isn’t a question that’s up for debate.

I mean how can you stipulate the very birth right of humanity?
Package it up and sale it as a gift.
Blindfold the mind,
And make the intangible verifiable in a objective sense,
Confining freedom to the spectrum of untangled chains, broken cuffs and open doors.
Integrated schools, Hospitals and Neighborhoods.

They have us thinking freedom is attached to material things.
Declarations, Emancipation and Proclamations to explain how “they” see it fit.
Viewing the world through the eyeholes of my oil paintings, I don’t see freedom at all.
I see an extended leash,
just enough elbow room for your accommodated space.

And as long as poverty is an option freedom can’t coexist.
Especially when you’re resisting abstract systems,
Now your desire to survive is thwarting your expression,
suppressing your ability to create,
Who knows the greatness of the mind confronted with limited options.
And we working with bare minimum yet look at the accomplishments.
See freedom really is a Free Dome, unbound by restrictions and limitations.
Its nothing to be lent, extended or given to, it is the essential nature the essence of you. P.E.A.C.E…

BLACK THOUGHTS I BE

By Sincere Crown Olugbala

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