There is an echo inside of me.
Butterflies trapped inside with me were trying to flee.
Confusion has me surrounded, and now it's all that I see.
Am I free?
Back and forth, with extreme consistency.
Tick then tock, the echo inflicting doom so persistently.
Thoughts are conformed into delusion; I can't take responsibility.
Am I free?
Look a little closer, is this just another form of slavery?
No whips, or chains, it’s all being a part of this society.
This isn't what one had hoped to be.
Am I free?
Willing to love yet not love so willingly.
Living life and going through the motions so seamlessly.
Separate from self this feels very slithery.
Am I free?
Walk This Way, talk this way, group think mentality.
Living like this is in essence insanity.
Blind to the truth of myself, this is sad it’s a casualty.
Am I free?
Oh, please oh please, just let me be, how I was created originally.
Before the lies, the indoctrination, and being programmed by TV.
Am I free?
Free to know the truth and really understand.
Free to know how all of this began.
Free from all the fear of living without knowing who I am.
I just want to be free, am I free?
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Tony Hale (Pseudonym) (
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This poem questions the concept of freedom and what it is. It is a good question whether it really exists in reality. And with freedom comes loneliness for one can not be truly free and not lonely for with any relationship comes constraints. Well written
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