FREE
In this heartfelt poem Alexander Foster, S8 expresses the struggle to break free from pain and secrecy.
Alexander Foster
Senior 8
Photography by Jasmine Dent
Art Co-Director, 2025
Broken smile, broken glass, check your patience doesn’t crack.
I simply can’t be happy, ‘Cause nobody cares about me.
How tough do I have to be, to live in such secrecy…
But nobody knows, But nobody cares,
Nobody suspects I’m anywhere because They just keep on hurting me,
WILL YOU PLEASE JUST SET ME FREE.
But I just keep on smilin’ But I’ll just keep on tryin’, And crying, And fightin’, While you just keep on lyin’, And biting, you’re frightenin’ me And I don’t even know, Who or where to go, I wanna be free but I’m scared to leave though,
And I just wanna see, Everywhere that I could be, But every single time you come back to me, I mean, Could you just imagine? I could get a degree, Don’t you agree? How great that’d be for me…?
No. You don’t. Leave me be? Ha! You won’t. And no, this isn’t a hyperbole. We both know I’ll never be free.