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Freedom?

April 9, 2010
By Cesare GOLD, Sacramento, California
Cesare GOLD, Sacramento, California
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Favorite Quote:
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favor. [You] do not lose anything, for with the loss of yourself, you lose the knowledge of loss.


Instinctive thoughts that swirl around our minds
Emotion bleeding through our hearts, our souls
To stain the purity of our new finds,
Discoveries of solidness, of roles,
Positions in society of man
Are washed away; ideals of freedom stay:
A freedom nonexistent in this land,
A freedom that one can't try to unsay.
Another promised, promises not kept.
Instead oppressive words suppress us all:
A cage that has been laid as we have slept,
But as we wake this cage be made to fall!
But not just yet: our wakefulness forestalls.
And so I flee for freedom. Only me.


The author's comments:
Sonnets are harder than Haikus! Anyway, I kind of made this up on the spot. I have about four others, but my English teacher has them... so yeah.
This poem focuses on freedom. Big surprise. The supposed "freedom of our democratic nations that have strict societal rules and regulations and all that. Is our freedom real?

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