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#10701voted by our readers
By miasandberg BRONZE
Highland, Utah

I wore shackles They weren’t a form of control but they protected me The ones who broke free were in danger and needed to be saved And every day more people were chained...
miasandberg BRONZE, Highland, Utah
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

#10703 Poetry
By Anonymous
#10704 Poetry
By Joel1 PLATINUM
Millbury, Massachusetts
Joel1 PLATINUM, Millbury, Massachusetts
30 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
If we do not learn from the past then history is doomed to repeat itself...Or, for now we see through a glass darkly

#10705 Poetry
By jasont727 PLATINUM
Calabasas, California
jasont727 PLATINUM, Calabasas, California
46 articles 18 photos 87 comments

Favorite Quote:
If there was no change, there would be no butterflies.

#10706 Poetry
By Anonymous
#10707 Poetry
By Talia Wallis BRONZE
Macao, Other
Talia Wallis BRONZE, Macao, Other
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#10708 Poetry
By Rawad BRONZE
Beit Chabab, Other
Rawad BRONZE, Beit Chabab, Other
2 articles 1 photo 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The self-same well from which our laughter rises was often times filled with our tears." - Kahlil Gibran

#10709 Poetry
By MeeSoh SILVER
APO AP, Other
MeeSoh SILVER, APO AP, Other
5 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;everything extraneous has burned away<br /> this is how burning feels in the fall<br /> of the final year not like leaves in a blue<br /> October but as if the skin were a paper lantern<br /> full of trapped moths beating their fired wings...&quot; -Paul Monette

#10710 Poetry
By ladyharmonia SILVER
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ladyharmonia SILVER, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
6 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
valar morghulis