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Freedom

The barbs sat on the wire Like the swallows before winter Cold But they cannot fly to warmer clime As they are bound To sit on the wire Trapping the inmates In the asylum called freedom And as we live our lives Behind barbed-wire fences In the belief that we are free We have to ask, as our hateful fist clenches Is life about us or only about me?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 10/3/2014 8:21:00 AM
Interesting question. The fences are designed to protect the so called freedom of us and me yet every time we or I travel freedom is at the discretion of those who mark the borders across which I or we travel.
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