October 14, 2020

Free the Speech

“Free Speech”

it’s kind of their mantra,

they’ll throw it at censorship

at “The Powers That Be”

at any who threaten to silence

the voices doing the throwing

the voices so long unconsidered

the voices gaining ascendance

over what would hold them back

that vile and disgusting things

may dance before startled eyes

parading ever more normally

unrepentantly, self-protectively

silencing the voices of dissent

Freedom of Speech, hah!

Freedom of Speech is a myth

a lost and intangible dream

a hope, once dearer than life

now cast aside and forgotten

speech is only free until

one speaks against the crowd