Tag: oppression
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The Widow’s Mite/Oppression Destroys
Her life in turmoil, sad in a poor home, no money to spend, two halfpennies left. ———– The lawyers look on with glee, another widow, vulnerable and poor, steal her home, send her to in-laws oppress her till she numbly goes. —— They set the bar high, in the temple treasury, 2 coins is a…
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Budgets Kill
Blue eyes sunk in a worried face, dim with the ache of hunger, closing to hide the horror of cruelty in power and control. —— Brown ones too in the faces of children understanding that they are voiceless and that loving adults voted for —– this annihilation, bold policies that take their food, warmth, their…
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Guantanamo Fear or Victims
—— He hides face in his arms as they grabbed him, twisting, hurting his already rope burned skin, innocently he had travelled to aged Afghanistan, guilty by colour and creed he was violently taken, not arrested, nor accused like hundreds of others. —— Guantanamo Bay, a cruel place of tried and tested torture criminalising good…
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Tyranny
He yawns and suborns. He snores breaks the laws. Watching the world waits and wonders, will it ever end or will he make them bend again and again to suit his rules, and calls them fools, as he laughs and sneers behind their listening ears. The homeless are in the gutter because that is his…
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The Tithes of Prejudice
They tenderly picked up her body, wonderfully made, brutally murdered, Her intelligence snuffed out, her wisdom lost, her mothering care gone. Society wept, crying against the constant bombardment of hate, hate, hate, spoken through the media social, the radio, the speeches and the street, as it wielded a gun, killed her, willed her death, for…
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They have a dream.
I have a dream, one cried. to subjugate and sully the lives of all those who are not like me. —— I have a dream, two cried. to bully and bait each and everyone who cannot be treated in my equality. —– I have a dream, the third said, to have power and control, to…
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