Poem: Neat Little Boxes
The neat little boxes
Of our lives
Hide their confinement
Comforting
And the norm
Not asking much
Citizens of the Empire
Charity for the poor
Protest by the rules
Tribalism and its’ silo
Institutional religion
Politics of extremes
Retributive justice
Rote learning
We are rearranging
The deck chairs
Prisoners redecorating
The prison
Wake Up
Tear down the dividing walls
Busting out
Be true unto thine Self
See your visions
Dream your dreams
Inform
Transform
Reform
Cruciform
Listen friend
“You will know the truth
And the truth will set you free”
“No one is free
Until all are free”
“The revolution
Will not be televised”
– Herb Stone, here&now working poetry, April, 2019
Grateful for the freedom quotes of Saint John, the Apostle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Gil Scott Heron
Art, Cube Head, by Emma Rojas
