Go Free

-Go Free-
by
Keaton Foster



Stand with me
Just a second please
Hold my hand
Tell me who you are
Let me know your name
Show me how to be
Allow me some light
Burn the darkness away
I know that there is
And has always been
A much better way
An impossible dream
That people like you live
While people like me resist
Not because we want to
But because it is part of the
Mechanism of our being
A cautionary over reaction
To all that has been done
No longer do I wish
To live under such weight
No longer will I dare refuse
All that I see in people like you
Stand with me
Show me what I must see
Enlighten my being
Break down the walls
Tear apart the seems
Scream go free
If only for a moment
If only for a second
Within my existence
It could possibly be
In that moment
In that glorious instant
That I find a way to live
For the first time
Since my gestation
Since my mother’s regurgitation
And subsequent condemnation
She gave me my name
And not a damn thing else
She hated me for reasons not known
I disgusted her through mistake
Hers, not my own
She told the orphanage
Keep this one quite close
Trouble brews in his blood
He will be angry under any God’s sun
He is not a gift from above
But a curse from my womb
Upon the world he is to be thrown
Have no mercy for this child
Not a damn bit
She then turned and walked away
Never to be seen
Never to be known
If I would have spoken
If I could have made any sense
Of the darkness I was about to face
If I would have not been so infantile
I would have said more
Then the silence of my words
I would have asked her why
I would have done more than just cry
Such tears I have forever wept
Such pain I have forever kept
So if you have the heart
Please scream go free
Allow me to see the world as you
And not the reality
Of my own dark truth
Allow me to live
Surreptitiously through you
And the kindness of your spark
No one will ever know
Scream for me to go free
Thus allowing me to see
Thus allowing me to feel
All that there is to be
Not all that has always been…




Go Free
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.