NOT ALLOWED TO DISAGREE

 

 

 

Who am I to disagree?

 

Who am I to disagree?

 

Since I was born

 

I have been taught

 

To praise the legacy

 

And follow the trail

 

of the dead

 

 

Who am I to disagree?

 

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I thought

 

I was born free!

 

But I found I have to lower my head

 

Put my books aside

 

Forget what I have read

 

lower my head

 

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A number of times a day

 

I suffer so much noise

 

then

 

I put my fingers

 

into my ears

Trying to listen to my mind

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Every Friday

 

I hear you shout

 

trying to tell me

 

how to mix

 

your own views

 

with Ideology

 

and spice it with history

 

 swallow it

 

in order to be a hardliner!

 

 

 

 

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Then I feel like fleeing to somewhere

 

And when I get there

 

I fail to find peace

(I feel as a stranger whereever I go)

 

Then I ask me:

 

Why don't I spit

 

Down here my mind?

 

Do I need a mind

 

Since

 

I am not allowed to disagree?

 

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a.griffiths57's picture

    So much of life demands

 

 

So much of life demands our silencing of thought and opinion a person does wonder where their freedom of thought and speech went. Just loved your poem and think it an interesting read that keeps asking the right questions.


 

 

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SSmoothie's picture

Feel your way through it in

Feel your way through it in the privacy of your own mind. There is understanding there. This is a very relatable poem. Religion versus spiritual is my main peeve. I often ask the same questions. Wonder what the reaction of christians or other faiths will be when they see other religious characters from other religions up in heaven (?) there too, and what would they think if they have to come back to earth as one of them? Interesting scenario! I am happy I read this work. It made good reading thank you for sharing. Hugss 


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

humanpulse's picture

Glad you liked it. I just

Glad you liked it. I just refined it. I replaced words by other words but the original meaning is still intact.