Freedom, in Defiance of Bondage
The skin begins
with a breathable, unflinching ability
to grow in space.
Then, in addition to illness,
the hurdle of mortality,
and judgment
based on ignorance.
Acknowledging is resisting,
which for some is to have intimately known an infection of dignity,
a fracture where humanity was crazed into lynching itself,
and to have taken an autopsy of human reason,
of what evolved into and out of imprisonment,
and to have come to the place
(even beyond brokenness, anger, tragedy)
the amazing place
(that after visiting we all want to tell about)
where forgiveness
helped us find our radiance
and freed it.