Be no place
Worldwide
One can hide,
When locked
In the eye,
Of a brother
Said big,
Cyber spy
To follow
We fellows,
Begs time
Knit façade,
Held a Mask
For my mind…
Fit disguise
Will so bide,
Gist of me
To stay free,
Camouflaged,
Need not flee
As privacy be,
Mine decides
I stand free!
Poetry on a canapé 
Puts the power right back where it belongs, “mine to decide.” Lest we forget Orwell’s 1984.
Thank you Paulette… Lest we forget Orwell, absolutely, and more recent Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden who have taken up the cause, sacrificing their privacy and liberty to expose the powers that be, who basically impose their self-serving invasions on our privacy, which by extension our supposed free world liberty. Jean-Jacques
Yes, indeed. Thank you.
We live in interesting times. “Mine to decide” is a powerful idea, yet there are many times that group think takes over.
True enough Rebecca, depending on how important free means. Worst case injustices that have kept humans incarcerated in one form or another, à la group takes over kind of empowerment, masking the mind kept and gave them the inner free or freedom to outlive those groups. I need not rack my brain for an example… Mendella says it all. Eventually the groups die off or get defeated… the PQ party in Québec is another says it all. Jean-Jacques Fournier
Very, very true – “depending on how important free means.” We lose freedom slowly, and we let is go without a whimper. Yet, when we awake! Ah! Then we know what we have lost.
Exactly… and yet as you say we let our freedom go without a whimper. Too late when we awake to find it gone, some of us even have gone to war or sacrifice lives to regain being free. How sad we humans can be, so complacent as to let it be taken from us in the first place. Maybe future generations will be wiser, and shun the power mongers who lull us to sleep while they steel our freedom. Jean-Jacques