Feel free
Feel free to mourn
Feel free to grieve
Feel free to scream at the powers that be perpetuating the conditions for this grieving
Feel free to rock your body back and forth to a rhythm played for immediate peace
Feel free to shake your head so hard you just might lose your mind
There’s not a lot of time
There’s a safety net with a hole the size of your body at your disposal
Such is this human condition
It will inevitably kill you
And if you are so lucky to have some say in how it is going to kill you
Feel free to dance defiantly to the tune of your own liberation
You see, the oppressed become the oppressor, like Freire said, until somebody steps out of that loop with fierce determination
There’s only one path towards collective freedom and it is paved by you stomping your feet to the beat of your own liberation
So dance
Grab the hands of anyone willing to join the movement
This cannot be forced
It is just an invitation extended to every living thing
That’s you
Every living thing
Feel free
Feel free to mourn
Feel free to grieve
Feel free to scream at the powers that be perpetuating the conditions for this grieving
Feel free to rock your body back and forth to a rhythm played for immediate peace
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These words were in part inspired by the trance inducing performance of Natural Information Society @ Le Guess Who 23, which Joshua Abrams closed by stating “this is music for immediate peace” and I felt that completely.
(posted first on IG in dec. 2023)
Yvet Youssef 