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Reply ID: Blog4HR
#111
Type: Poetry
Topic: Freedom, Human Rights
I'm Not a Good Slave
by Nate A. Lindell
created 2 Jan. '13
I'm not good
At living in a degraded state
No matter that the 13th Amendment says it's okay
Whips make ME rage!
I won't bear a shackle
Because of one mistake
Or a thousand I might make
- So the would-be masters claim
While doing worse in the state's name.
I'm not a good slave!
I was born to be free,
To be all that I can be,
Not be caged!
Just because most fail to feel
Their loss of liberty
Doesn't make the bonds less real
For me!
I'm not a good slave!
This war I seem to have been born in
May not have a happy ending
But I'll be glad if I still say,
With one foot in my grave:
"I'm not a good slave!"
http://betweenthebars.org/blogs/540/nathaniel-lindell
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