If I were any more contained

I’d be a tin of coffee

Sealed so fresh

We can’t easily get it open

*

My hands are slippery

because I’ve been washing dishes

I can’t get the lid off

Do you think that you can help me?

*

Pop sizzle

A day saturated with flavour

A breath sets me free

Together alone

We are known

**

If I were any more restrained

I’d be strapped in a gurney

In a straight jacket

We can’t easily get open

*

My hands work quickly

Confidence has

been granting wishes they can’t get rid of

Do they think that they can help me?

*

Snap slither

Captors masquerade as saviours

A breath sets me free

*

Forever alone

Never known

*

My mind

more free than my body

**

Love is free in my words

But too rarely heard

Because many choose

To ignore a story

that doesn’t make money

*

They think they are cunning

They implore they know the best way

For the world to be running

despite leaving

Half the world

Dirty, starving

or bloody

*

If I were any more sane

I’d be just as lucky

Brain concealed in flesh

We can’t easily get it open

*

My hands are tightly gripping

because I’m hearing words so vicious

I can’t turn the grid off

Do you think that you can help me?

*

Boom drizzle

They rate a stormy sky’s behaviour

A breath sets me free

*

No freedom alone

Share what’s known

Our minds should help free

Everybody

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