Unbound

from Hold Me While the World Burns by Matti Joy

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Dedicated to No Mas Muertes/No More Deaths
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Hundreds if not thousands of miles overground
With a child on her back
Fleeing from the press gangs way back home

Over sand, stone, jungle and the harshest land
Long stolen from her people
Toward something that might just look like hope

Yet in the final stretch to freedom
The fed said leave them to their deaths
No mercy for the foreign breath

But no barbs upon wire or small petty fine
Would keep them from the free exercise
Of a timeless love
Unbound

They were unbound
(No state could stop them)
Unbound
(No man could judge them)
Unbound
No thing to do but join them and be unbound

When commanded to offer up the names
Of neighbor, kin, and countrymen
They nodded and sent them on along

But little did those nazis know
Of the long and winding undertow
Below the waves that sent them on their way

Be it stamps or children feverishly
Filled out and smuggled through the leaves
It was a treasure of humanity
Unbound

They were unbound
(No state could stop them)
Unbound
(No man could judge them)
Unbound
No thing to do but join them and be unbound

May this little song and my paltry words
Unhinge your heart and sheath your swords
And be the death of border wars
May your love be unbound

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from Hold Me While the World Burns, released May 13, 2022

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