Freedom - Change Our Mind Sets
We were all suppose to be born into freedom
but centuries ago,
humans decided to change the rules
also decided who qualified
to be completely free or who did not;
even today,
with the brilliant minds roaming earth
people are still being held captive
by perceptions, by history
and by our own minds,
cheating ourselves into thinking
that being different
is not a measure for being free,
thinking that to follow the norm
will always make us acceptable,
low and behold
try to slant the scales
try to be different
and you are branded
as an outsider;
lots have been done
to eradicate the stigma
and the infringement on people’s rights
on freedom of choice, but in the end
we will never be free until,
we stop blaming our past
for the decisions we take presently
and for the direction our future is heading into,
we need to change our mind sets,
it has to start with us as individuals...
Copyright © Wilma Neels | Year Posted 2010
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