Lauryn Said

"I want out of social bondage", Lauryn said.

Every day, I struggle to find an answer to that cry.

The same one that lies within me.

I don't have the answer. If I had the answer, would I then be free?

If I knew what to do, could I do it?

If I had to choose between the comforts of this society

and true self-sovereignty, would I choose liberation over monopoly?

"I get out", Lauryn said.

But she didn't tell me how.

Step-by-step, I go nowhere.

I return to myself with frustration

and the crushing weight of my desire to reach the timeline

where we actually take care of one another.

I just want to have something good in this world. Truly good.

Free of exploitation and greed and hate and corruption.

Until the possibility truly exists, I can never be free.

So everyday, I build my faith, carrying the hope & the potential of that possibility.

"Knowing my condition is the reason I must change", Lauryn said.

And so I shed layers of who I am not.

Finding freedom in the moments where I am most authentic.

For I am not searching not for an end in sight.

But a possibility.