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Elijah

Poems
- Freedom for Speech

Freedom for Speech
         by Elijah

I pontificate as I defecate, on the latrine...freedom of speech, can I speak and I don't care if you're not listening, you're still hearing me! Good people get up on your feet and wake your brother up that went to sleep. Because these cowards are on the creep. They say they have a group of people that serve and protect but yet, all I see is killing and disrespect. They say they uphold a code justice, BUT I ask, 'who's justice is it'? As they alternate justice while they make laws that oversee laws, laws that oversee man's laws that even oversee God's laws... As a simple man, I will never fully understand the rules and regulations or the degrees of these rules and regulations in this foreign land. and I will never feel safe or free in a nation That says' we are equal as a people', but yet they segregated us with race... For ya'll that know better, ya'll gonna do better. Whether you're in the caves of Afghanistan or in this "promised land", I beg you,' learn your history or should I say 'his' story'? I want you to understand me when I say, "I am here with you, and you are here with me". So let's kick it 'til we ain't got no teeth and together we can make this world a nice place to sleep. I know you've heard it before, but we, can rock the dance floor- Let me say it again,: to all my brothers hustlin' the streets, it's time that we should meet, and wake your brother up that went to sleep. Because these cowards are trying to kill me. I can't do this all by myself, and neither can you, but together there's nothing "we" can't do. I want what you want because l'm just like you. I want peace I want peace. I want what you want. I'm no different than you. I want our children to live in peace. I want our children to learn their history. I want them to learn where the lies are buried, you know, at the library. I want the same things you want because I'm just like you. I can't jump off this planet and neither can you. But together, there's nothing we can't do. I want peace because I'm just like you. I don't think you heard me. I am the people and the people are me. Together we will die and together we will fly. Together we will sleep and together we will be free... Good people, when are you going to be willing to die before you accept defeat? Good people get up on your feet. If you don't feel me Good people it is because you don't understand me. And if you don't understand me, Good people it is because you feel don't me.


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