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Human Writes, A Poem About Protecting Human Rights

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You spit "Nay"

 

in our "Ayes"

 

to express

 

your oppress-

 

sive nature.

 

 

 

Nothing new-

 

old tea brewed;

 

spring cleaning-

 

first inning.

 

 

 

Soul-less laws

 

abolish

 

human rights,

 

to sell slaves.

 

 

 

Bordered walls

 

paved with blood-

 

stained bodies,

 

buried below.

 

 

 

Freedom's dead,

 

shot in head;

 

can't you hear

 

bullets, dear?

 

 

 

De "mock" racy

 

mocks what we see,

 

for they are one,

 

despite who won.

 

 

 

Blame the matrix;

 

no, not Neo...

 

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freedom   human rights   laws   womens rights

â—„ Miscalculated

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