OUR WORDS ALONE

We must FIGHT for not only our own free speech, but that of the entire worlds, because the only pathway to true equality, to true peace, is through open conversation, honest rhetoric, and love.

We’ve fought wars for words alone.

Made sacrifice, in depth and tone.

                                 The right to have expression, free,

And see things the way others see.

But in this world, both near and far,

Live people stripped of who they are.

Opinions locked in cages steel,

Restrictions placed on what is real.

The desert, dry as idle tongue.

The dissent, dire as punctured lung.

Still, people argue, laugh and cry,

Prepared to speak, prepared to die.

Yes, people talk, and scream, and pray,

And hope persists another day.

Unrest rises like burning sun

On a world half-free, left undone.

Our cries of change, our honest song,

Will, to regime, never belong.

They are not theirs,

They are our own.

We must fight for words alone.

Reviews

[emipoemi]

How on earth did I miss this one!? WOW! A few words throughout the piece land on the wrong sylLAble, but this poem has a strong message, great progression, and stupendous repetition in the ending. Well freaking done! You simply need to tweak those words that land improperly, and you would have a gem on your hands.

[Crowley]

Woohoooo!!! You sing it. This is exactly right. Still so many places that will pulverize the masses for speaking their minds. It is the duty of every person with the desire to write, to keep doing it so that someday, everyone has an equal chance to express there love and their outrage in a way that they see fit. Loved this!!

[C.E.M.]

Thank you Crowley!!! I wrote this for those brave journalists, artists, protestors, and human beings killed in countries all throughout the world for voicing their opinion, or criticizing, or being themselves. The war for free speech, for a free world, is far from over. My hope is that we can use words to inspire action, and take action ourselves. To Language