Jess, The Young 'Freedom' Poet

Jess is a young mum from Tumut in rural NSW. She is passionate about the freedom movement and reflects this through her poetry. She was a state finalist in the 2024 Word Travels poetry competition.You claim anti deathwhile reveling in bloodBecause someone didn’t singThe same song that you sungyou propagate justificationEyes smeared with ideological mudWhat’s your end goal here?Which side will emerge victorious?Will free thought become illegal?Castrating children become normalised?Do we as humanityHave any baseline sanityDo you genuinely want everyone to agree with what you think?Should we collectively board this titanic of a shipA population of people who all think the same thingsUsed to be known as a dictatorshipAn ideological messOf thought policing censorshipBut for now we have two sidesTwo linesTwo dividesWhile critical thinkers observe from the outsideThe atomisation of nations promotes widespread degeneration of intellectual relations and conversationsDivided and conqueredBy names never utteredPolitics is a puppet showDemocracy is dangerousWhen we’re voting with the mindsSystematic beneficiaries shaped FOR usSo nowThe left aim right and the right aim leftHit middle ground and kill the innocentsUntil the middle ground is bare and barrenUntil the people feel pressured to run behind a canonChoose your side as society is polarised intoA black and white clashing abyssAnd only good and evil coexistA paradoxical perspective based on where you sitNone are neither but both can be bothAnd in the end there’s only equal woeIf you would like to support Cafe Locked Out why not check out our shop here https://bit.ly/MGGALink.Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cafelockeddown.substack.com/subscribe