Censor the culture
is to promote creation
secret underground
Whenever the s hit the fan, I always used to delete the space
ideas silence
creators denied free thought
speech control power
A short brief about the modern day censor,
Withholding what we can and can’t read,
Withholding what was once considered free speech,
Before the censor was let out and freed.
Like in the new poems on this poetry site,
We can’t type GET --------, or ------- YOU,
YOU ------, ----- IT, or ----OFF, because
We’ve been told these words are taboo.
This makes me wonder what words will be next,
What words will we be told to fear,
What words will the censor remove from our tongue,
What words will soon disappear.
Maybe the words that’d better watch out are,
William Shatner! Mango! Egg white!
I think the censor wants to remove these words,
Thinking we’ll all sleep better at night.
Don’t censor me and let me write at will
The longings of my heart these pages fill
You fathom not what lies within my heart
So don’t contrive a way to ban my art
Unfettered let my fingers pound these keys
My passion and my strength these rhymes appease
I live to conquer fears that vex my soul
The broken parts life stole, these lines make whole
Those fantasies that lie within my breast
All naked now they lie in words undressed
I feel the freedom born of words set free
You cannot bind or drown the truth in me
The more you try to take away my choice
The more it speaks through poetry: my voice!
Eileen Manassian
A Modified Repost
Don’t censor me and let me write at will
The longings of my heart these pages fill
You fathom not what lies there in my heart
So don’t contrive a way to ban my art
Unfettered let my fingers pound these keys
My passion and my strength these rhymes appease
I live to conquer fears that vex my mind
And solace sweet in written words I find
Those fantasies that lie within my breast
All naked now, they lie in words undressed
I ride the freedom born of words revealed
And cannot bear to keep these thoughts concealed
So don’t begrudge impassioned poetry
It is my life, my joy, my ecstasy
Eileen Manassian