The Ones That Broke Free

Coming of age in the sixties and seventies

in the United States was like being in a particle

collider of social forces and energies that smashed

some barriers temporarily, brought increased

awareness in many spheres, failed miserably 

in the political arena, created a modern template 

of what society could be, and was, later, 

overwhelmed by the persistence of corruption, by 

then, endemic in the government.

Some jumped out of windows on LSD….

self defenestration…..

some became converted capitalists….it was

up to you then, if you were into it, what you saw,

what message you got out of it, how long you
were in it, what you did after you got out of it.

That was the denouement…the cry of joy while
there still might have been time…what the first
half of the Twentieth Century was always longing for.

There is still the ripple in the pond of that freedom.

There is still music we love, air that we breathe,
there is still the unimaginable world that we
haven't, fully, yet explored.