Tell me, is liberty a gilded lie?
Humankind has long loved doling out chains.
Even so, Man still looks up to the sky,
Pretends that his own brother, he’s not slain.
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Humankind has long lived doling out chains,
Man wielded stones, knives, and guns, to this day,
Pretends that his own brother, he’s not slain,
Yet both the whippers and the whipped do pray.
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Man wielded stones, knives, and guns to this day,
Brutal violence is the only constant,
Yet both the whippers and the whipped do pray,
Those blood-soaked men, those pretending gallants.
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Brutal violence is the only constant.
Even so, Man still looks up at the sky;
Those blood-soaked men, those pretending gallants,
Tell me, is liberty a gilded lie?
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About the Creator
Chloë J.
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When Big Bands Played on every station 📻
When big bands ruled the world, with live broadcast each night. A slow world. A sentimental world. A world that believed in God. In LOVE. A world after the war that appreciated the small things, the community and most importantly family above all else. What a beautiful world that was of values. If we could only add progression to old school morality then maybe one would have less suffering. A book I read often from the 1950 states “if suffering made the world wise, a wise world it would be” after the world wars what a wise world we were becoming. If progression could meet slowness, like the Italian say “the art of doing nothing” what a peaceful world we would have. Big Bands brought in peace in a time the world didn’t know the end, each night the news goes off, did a love one die? Is your family now just a Jayne or Joe doe somewhere out there? Well forget your troubles we are all in this together- here is Glenn Miller and his Big Bands singing it’s a blue world, the moonlight serenade begins for a hour where you forget your troubles and melt in with the big band. Once the war was over those late night broadcasts became coming home dances. For a moment to me that was a beautiful world. Radio Days. Glenn miller and his orchestra playing live lifting spirits. A beautiful world that must had been for that moment. To be alive and to be appreciative of every second God Has given you.
By La Regina💗Kallie Venturini❤️about 4 hours ago in Poets
Comments (1)
Powerful! I enjoyed the symmetry, structure and the briefness of the Poem. The repeating language is most impactful.