Where Freedom Lies

Oh how it feels to be free in this Black female body

In this small town where Black Lives Matter all of a sudden in the year 2024

I wish I could tell you

But I cannot

Where is the liberation you might ask?

Well it is hidden

It is hidden well

Between the sacred

And the profane

Of what is still the faith journey I am on

And the trauma I am trying to overcome

It is hidden behind walls I have put up to protect me

And walls built up to oppress me from a system we all must unite and fight together

Or we will surely succumb to the unrest of this world

Oh how it feels to be free in this Black female body

I wish I could tell you

But what I do know is that I am blessed to be on this journey

What I do know is that I am not getting off this train

What I do know is that any liberation that might come will come in Gods time

And through my obedience

When

and I say

When I stop allowing the past to dictate my present and my future

And cross the river into my tomorrow

Breaking down walls and trampling on the divide between the sacred and the profane

to where there is

Only Holy

Only Whole

There and only there is

Where Freedom lies