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Falling

May 29, 2015
By Roxy.EP BRONZE, Erie, Colorado
Roxy.EP BRONZE, Erie, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.&quot;<br /> Franklin D. Roosevelt


I am happy.

Your greatest shadow

lights up with hope.

 

Your arms in manacles,

your dreams in captivity.

Later, they shame you.

 

Tell you that your last dream is walking out the door.

But,

the condition you are in

allowed you to cash in your miseries.

 

But I promised,

I guarenteed.

That your rights to be happy, will rise, seated no more.

nobody should shame your dignity, strip it from your hands.

 

You walk,

alone, allowed to fall.

waiting to be staisfied

unspeakable.

our only scream today is as mighty as a lion.

no, not, cannot, 

should not be the horror

on our lips

 

Do not have injustice.

Freedom has transformed

how little character we have

if we judged.

 

Sing the meaning

that rings

from mountain

to city

every state,

shall speed up day.

 

Fo you,

Great, might, words.

I cry now,

for you.

You are falling.


The author's comments:

Adapted from Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speach.


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