Freed
Published in KEEPERS 2025 Youth Poetry Anthology
“We’re given these wild imaginations while being trapped in a world that can never live up to them” - June from “Welcome to Horizon”
I want to fly with no restrictions,
No visas, tickets, or even planes,
Let me -
Grow wings or build a machine that will take me far far away.
Let Caprisun be the only fuel and desire - the only engine.
I want to free-fall knowing that I will be caught, I want to –
Talk to my dog,
Kiss a frog,
Be able to –
See through a fog
Clear a smog
And be on the cover of every single Vogue catalog.
I want to be –
An Avatar,
A Na’vi that,
Jumps through the trees,
Plant seeds that bloom into Eywa’s,
And harvest the seas.
I want to free an orca just like in Free Willy,
To prove myself that I actually have some free will
I want to be that Orca,
So I can finally be freed
From the prison of my own imagination
That creates a perfect world with no lies,
Turns prisons into schools
And knives into butterflies
Makes me wonder why -
Aren’t we able to fly,
With no visas,
Tickets,
Or even Planes.
Just by growing wings.
I want to be freed