The Refugees' Clutch

by ddavidd   May 13, 2023


He:
_we give them freedom
why do they use the freedom to criticize us.
Why do they bite the hands
that have fed and freed them?

I:
_ It is the nature of freedom to be allowed uttering the truth as you see,
otherwise, what kind of freedom is it when you are only free to praise those who gave you freedom?

What kind of freedom is it
that keeps you in disadvantage forever,
where your opinion, your freedom of speech has no value?

where now that THEY have given you freedom, you belong to them?
where you just are a surd, an exanimate object, a piece of rock, to echo their voice only,
for your soul has been bargained?

In real you did not free them.
You ‘re not even free yourself if you cannot receive our differences,
if you snatch their freedom of speech,
if you enslave others by their own sense of loyalty.

October 10 2013.

Based on the debate I had with "A lonely soul" 10 years ago.

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