[Poem] When You Arent Free

 By Emmit Other

People assume

A dictatorship begins

When the secret police are at your door

To drag you into the night

But its already started for most

The most free people

Are now 

Not

Freedom starts in your heart and mind

Navalny in Russia

Was free until the day he died

Even though his country wasnt

The media self censors for the Gulf of America

The Senate approves Trumps Nominations

Many believe them good

More believe they were approved from fear

Being careful in dark times doesnt make you a slave

If you have a purpose

If you have a mission

If you wait and hope to make men free

And say The Gulf of America 

For the greater good

Them you are a free man in a police state

But if you say it 

To comply 

To just do your job

To just not have the emails

From angry constituents

To just stay off the radar

Of the scary man

Or if you take delight in the fear

Of making others say it

You are not free

How do you truly know?

If you have to ask the question

You are already in the queue

To be a slave

And you only get off of it

When you decide

Who you will be

And what you will do