4th of July Share 10 Family Celebration Poem

FREEDOM This year, I lost my freedom. The Fourth of July—no longer mine. Independence slipped through borderlines, My heart, my hopes, my dreams— fractured by frontiers and buried in bureaucracy. Fear... like a shadow that won’t let go. Racism... like chains I never chose. Eagerness... with nowhere to land. Emotion... unraveling in silence. Dominance... cloaked as law. Opposition... wearing a uniform. Magic... gone. The spark that once lit skies—extinguished. No firework can fix what’s been taken. No anthem can sing me whole. ©️Rocio Huerta De Mendieta @eclectic_artist Where every stitch tells a story