Liberty

Starch resistant survivors scratching existence out of mountain sides,

Turning rocks into bread and weeping as covetous kings steal lambs,

Will rise like rivers and sweep restraint into the sea.

Liberty is a peasant woman seeking to feed her children

And she teaches them first to die

Before surrendering to the oppression of the un-likeminded,

To find inspiration in the hunger-spark of minds like flints

Honed in the wilderness.

Laugh at painted faces in battle cry?

“Futile” you say?

Boadicea made Hadrian build a wall both sides respected.