Dignity
Your life became ours,
when we acquired the rights
to your happiness
in exchange
for our own
The rights were perpetual
and globally enforceable
Sadly, they also included
the dignity we reserve
for ourselves
but deny now,
to you
Copyright © David Brown | Year Posted 2014
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