I’m Sorry Freedom (poem)
Dedicated to StevetheBlogger who requested this sonnet
I’m sorry my dear heroes for our shame
For mothers’ empty tears that now go by
For curses braved so cowards sit and cry
For surely there is someone else to blame
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I’m sorry that your glory became lie
That freedom was an easy thought to tame
That while you fought our leaders played a game
That all the hopes of yesterdays now cry
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Like flocks of sheep to terror in we cave
To eyes and ears that watch us everyday
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Arrested cause our clothes hint misbehave
Our children searched in streets they used to play
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Those dreams of liberties whose cost were grave
Are freedoms we now lightly give away