CAN YOU BE FREE

Can you be as natural as the sun

searing in the firmament?

Can you be like this ode mine, not my opponents?

Can you be like hip-hop?

Can you be limitless?

Can you permit each dialogue I utter?

Can you not be a flaw in my recitation?

Can you be here for permanence?

Can you be there for eternity?

Can you not be? His, Hers,

Theirs, just mine,

Can you be? I ask you,

Can you be black in restful time and in hopelessness?

Can I contain you?

Like the exact colour of my skin?

Can you rise with me and value what I represent?

Can you be original?

Can you be honest and not ridicule my character?

Can you be?

I dare ask you can you be free.