Free As A Bird 27.08.2009 Poem by Margaret Alice

A new fantasy, a new story, a new
situation where I as undercover spy
act as protocol officer offering me the
opportunity to infiltrate enemy lines with
access to classified information

Adventures keep my mind occupied and
my eyes shining, I refrain from acting as
mediator between a complainant and the
hierarchy, my words would destabilise the
situation, repeating my own history

I recommend she submit to bureaucracy
and corporate environment without insisting
on human rights, we gave up freedom and
initiative the day we became the incumbent
just like children attending school

The system is slavery with total control, bend
and let the tide carry you, resistance is suicide
when I was new I resisted and was broken in a
million places, today I am healed without a scar
and live happily in servitude

My mind as free as a bird in the sky…