Crushed

beaten and broken bruised and battered brutalized and bare bandaged and braised bashed and butchered bold and brave Anguished Slayed and silenced slaughtered and seduced strong-armed to surrender squeezed and squashed bleeding hearts clad in elephant vestment with an eternal spirit, pugnacious against the system from the walls of prison, sentenced for a crime they didn’t commit cogently grilling them to submit. They have hearts of a lion, Giving their own for a million That is what it takes for freedom To be in our hands.