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Monday, January 22, 2018




Freedom,
Far behind us,
Sensing something,
Freedom,
Far in front of us,
We glimpsed untouchable light,
Freedom,
But that forbidding wall,
Freedom,
Still cruel gulags,
Freedom,
Jails overburdened with broken men,
Screaming tortured souls,
Freedom,
Rancid war and horrid bombs,
Armies of bullets and infinite terror,
Freedom,
Oppressed behind iron curtains of savage razor wire,
Freedom,
Precious hopes and dreams,
Clean air and fresh streams to inherit,
Fertile land so family and kin can share it,
Freedom,
Weeping behind cold steel bars,
Dying bound in unforgiving chains,
Freedom,
Crushed by heartless tyrants and dictators,
Imprisoned and crucified in dank dungeons,
Freedom,
Boxed up by  joyless slavery,
Subjugated by heartless servitude,
Freedom,
Shot to death in angry streets,
Beaten and strung up by the neck,
Freedom,
Beheaded and buried by tyranny,
Crushed under the weight of cruel strife,
Freedom,
Invented by poets and artists and anarchists,
All those dreams that children imagine,
Freedom,
Lost and found and lost again,
Genuine freedom tragically forgotten,
Freedom,
Stolen away by insane kings and inane presidents,
Robbed and betrayed by rabid corporations,
Freedom,
Unceremoniously burned in the street,
Incinerated by raging rulers and brutal barbarians,
Freedom,
Imagined but never really achieved,
Concocted but never truly realized,
Freedom,
Reserved by divine command,
Ultimately refined by big brother's almighty hand,
Freedom,
Raped and crucified under Roman laws,
Spat upon by greedy power and unjust social flaws,
Freedom,
Garroted and drowned in bottomless wells,
Infected and injected with abysmal terror,
Freedom,
Human rights stripped away by avarice and hate,
Suppressed resistance by the dragons of war and State,
Freedom,
Hunted to ground by destructive forces,
Trampled by heartless armies and cruel men,
Freedom,
Wishes myth and fables trade,
Hysterical forces in this desperate masquerade,
Freedom,
Love your neighbour,
As you love yourself.

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