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Writer's pictureAlison Blevins

FREE.D.O.M

D - O - M three small letters that came at a cost;

war, after war, after war in our past, one of them ends in a nuclear blast, wear a poppy each year - ‘lest we forget’ - and yet…

we are still fighting in far distant lands so it doesn’t seem real – the blood on our hands.

D - O - M three small letters that came at a cost;

fueled by subjugation, slavery, then segregation, but the man with the dream, which he shared with his nation wound up dead – a bullet to the head…

in the land of the free – where he made the call, it was really quite simple – equality for all.

D - O - M three small letters that came at a cost;

an explosion on a plane, in a car, on a bus and it rained metal and concrete...

and enough patriotism to fuel a battle fought far away, in a desert of dirt but it didn’t end there, now all humanity hurt.

D - O - M three small letters that came at a cost;

a mother, a father, a grandparent lost – to a disease, allowed to run rife, by a lack of respect for those older in life...

who needed our care but were left unaware in a place we called ‘home’ – but they were alone.

D - O - M three small letters that come at a cost;

a mortgage - bills, and council tax, a fifty hour week, and a credit card maxed, no rest for us - thrown under the bus...

by Tory MPs who live without stress, of feeding a family – they clapped our NHS -to keep their seat warm while the rest of us mourned.

F - R - E - E. four small letters that allow us to;

wear what we want, to speak without fear, to love whom we like to demonstrate – strike to be whom-ever we want to be,

four little letters that we take for granted F - R - E - E FREE - implies something for nothing until you add D-O-M.

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