LaKeisha's "Free" is a worried, tired reflection on what it costs to stay afloat. The speaker begins with a simple wish: if they died today, the people they love would still remember them. Right away, that sets up the poem's fear of being forgotten.
From there, the focus shifts to money and work. The speaker sees a world that is cold and distracted, where people are either glued to social networks or stuck punching a time clock with nothing to show for it. The sharpest complaint is personal: they help make someone else a million and still can't get paid enough to eat well. Hunger and bills push them "outside" their own head and wear down their hope.
The mood is heavy and quietly desperate, but also honest. The last lines tie everything together: each time the speaker can't make a way forward, a little piece of them fades, which is exactly what they feared at the start.