We were never free

Just cost effective

Paid in dirt

Bound to debt

Cut free, drift into life

Threshold for pain has receded

You knew it but you just had to see it

Bodies in streets, exposed to the heat

You see it and you're scared to repeat it

Bodies in streets and you have to id them

How could we ever id them

You would never fall so far

But it's not so far off

There's no escape

Time

Can

Never be replaced

I wish

I could

Live

Long enough to see it start to cave in, releasing from the cages, any doubt in our minds

We were never free