Crying Out
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Requiems of caged animals
Sounding through slanted metal bars
Like the epiphanies of
Little lost children
Crying out
Trying so hard to please
The people important to them
Yet always failing
The slanted metal bars
Taunting them
Provoking them
To go against the stigma
Placed on their kind
And so they hold their heads high
Despite the blind hatred and
Biased prejudices
Branded in their blood
Caged animals
Crying out
Like lost souls
Looking for their
Place in the world
Lusting for
Those who are free
Crying out
To hide the
Mantle of deprivation
That hides beneath their
Vicious snarls and large grins
Crying out
To other like them to embrace
To know that there is someone
More
Someone other than themselves
That suffers at the hands of fate.
After all,
Crying out is the only way
That caged animals
Communicate themselves.
And so,
Cry out
To rid yourself of the stigma
Of prejudice
Cry out
To prove your worth
But important of all,
Cry out
To open those slanted metal bars
And be free.
Free like the bird.
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