Wilma Neels Poet Free verse

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...

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