Ayk Fowosire
Elsewhere, "the price of freedom is
watchfulness"; back home, the price we pay to still be on this side of the
here-and-now is fear. Legendarily, it is the fear of the future, the fear of
the unknown; but in more recent times, there is likewise the fear of the law...
For we are aware of the laws protecting us, our being, our freedoms, our
respectedness; as we are also aware of the (not so) subtle ways that these laws
have been undermined, sidelined, and crushed– and all in one breath– by the
very ones we allowed to be in the position to safeguard our sovereignty, and
who do not...
