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Prisons of Our Minds

April 19, 2012
By SpyceChik GOLD, Accra, Other
SpyceChik GOLD, Accra, Other
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Favorite Quote:
If it must be done, it must be done well.


Locked in a prison that is no prison
But is one and the same;

The same longing to get out,
The same need of wings
To fly to the farthest reaches of the earth.
Wanting to see
Wanting to know
But wanting what is forbidden most...

Dropped in a bottle, that is no bottle
But is one and the same;

The same grasping of slippery walls
That cannot be broken and cannot be grasped.
So easily is the outside seen,
So easily those walls come between:
It is easy to bind the body
But how can the mind be confined?

In vain the searching mind
Tries to analyze foreign cultures,
Foreign ideas; foreign to its people...
But quickly the door is slammed in its face.
"Curiosity killed the cat!"
People often spit in
its face,
It seems they've forgotten,
That satisfaction brought it back.

Rigid, unthinking traditions:
Society's boundaries
That exist unexplained,
Lines uncrossed that we know should be;
These are the prisons of our minds,
These are the shackles whose keys we must find.



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on Jan. 29 2013 at 8:56 pm
TheSkyOwesMeRain GOLD, Irvine, California
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Favorite Quote:
Life isn't measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments which take your breath away.

You are only as strong as your weakest link.

Great! And a very strong conclusion :) 

SpyceChik GOLD said...
on Oct. 2 2012 at 7:46 am
SpyceChik GOLD, Accra, Other
14 articles 0 photos 41 comments

Favorite Quote:
If it must be done, it must be done well.

Thanks. I'm really grateful for your interest. I'll keep checking out your work as well.

on Sep. 27 2012 at 5:26 pm
Shortblueeyes224 DIAMOND, Auburntown, Tennessee
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Favorite Quote:
"Are We Happy Plastic People"- Casting Crowns "While we're sung to sleep by philosophies that save the trees and kill the children" - Casting Crowns "It's such a secret place, the land of tears"Antoine de Saint-Exupery

AMAZING yet again :)