Poetic thoughts on freedom

Land of the free.

Home of the Brave.

Free as long as you fit the cookie cutter criteria

Able bodied

Able minded

Straight

White

Male.

Brave as long as you fight.

Pay no mind to those who come home

With broken bones

To broken homes.

Pay no mind to those

Who didn’t come home.

Pay no mind to those

Who came home

Still at war

With their own minds.