The day I was born

I don't remember it

But i know the day it happened

On the day I was born

My freedom was taken

You just outright took it

My parents assigned

Me a name

And you took it away

With thier signature

You assigned

Me a number

The 9 digit code

To forever keep me chained

A numerical value

That allowed me to learn

What someone else

Thought I should

Math and science

English and social

Some of it useful

Teaching the basics

Of how to exist in this cage

On the day I was born

You assigned a yet

To be determined value

Already prepared to

Invest in my time

As stock

In hopes

Of not a high return

But a return

All the same

As i grew up

Others tried to

Indoctrinate my mind

Take control

Of some of my time

Looking for a return

In tithes

Promising me paradise

As I grew older

Accustomed to my cage

Defined at firsr

By a parental hourly wage

Seeing the borders

How I wish then I knew

How heavy the chains

To be kept on me were.

On the day I was born

You had bought

My freedom

It cost you nothing

As the system

Was long in place

The day i moved out

On my own

You shacked my feet

The borders of my cage

Were quite clear

The walls that surround me

The limits of the city

All the lines on the map

Separating zoo and safari.

On the day i was on my own

You held forth

Food and shelter

You showed me

Yet did not give

I had no land

I could not make

My own

I had no land

And could not choose land freely.

For I had no freedom,

I was a number

A part of the system

My time had value

And if I did not wish

To be hungry

I had to pay even

For the right

To hunt

To gather to live

I am a nine digit number

I have no freedom

I am held by leash

To paper and coin

Held by chain to

Trade in my time

On the day

I became an adult

You took my time

I worked

Often meaningless tasks

And was given paper in return

Paper that was lessened

By what the system toom

I was tossed scraps

In return

Hospital to keep me alive

I lose value

If I'm sick or die

I have to exist

To be part of a system

I did not choose

Even my life is not my own

For you give me control

And call it protection

To uphold laws you say

And dying is not allowed

People will be sad

If you die they say

Yet i did not choose to exist

What if I'm sad now

Take these pills

They make you happy

Just work a little more

So you can afford them

Lies I say

The pills made me angry

Condition the mind

Listen to the lies

If you only pay someone

To listen it gets better

Here I'm talking

I refuse to pay

On the day i was born

You took my freedom away

You made me a number

And later told me to pay

You gave me cages

To control where I went

Where I stayed

I don't want your system

Wish that I could

Undo that I even exist

I don't want to die

I want a never was..

But here I am

So I ask

Let me go

Let me be free

Work the ground

With my own hands

For me

I don't

Want the system

I despise your paper

And coin

I'm tired

Please take your

Number and leave

On the day i was born

I lost my freedom

A victim like many

To capitalism, communism,

Socialism, society, government..

A victim to money and religion

To the name of progress

They tell us we have freedom

But we are numbers in a machine

On the day we were  born

Something dear to us was stolen.

On the day we were born

We became numbers

We became codes

And debt

And were never free.

Kaloriinn, James. Mason