<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Slavery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I found blinded slavery: a persons’<br>Present tied to their parents’ past that urge<br>Them to yield to their traditions, worsened<br>By ancient spirits, fettered and scourged.<br>I found muted slavery: which mated<br>The life of a man to a wife he hates<br>And places her body in a hated<br>Husbands bed deadening both lives and fate.<br>I found deafened slavery: which stifles<br>The soul and heart of man rendering him<br>An empty echo, no voice, pitiful<br>Shadow of a body, a grim phantom.<br>No emancipation proclamation<br>Freed man from self-imposed subjugation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340769" data-title="Slavery de Albert Ahearn" data-description="I found blinded slavery: a persons’ Present tied to their parents’ past that urge Them to yield to their traditions, worsened By ancient spirits, fettered and scourged. I found muted slavery: which mated The life of a man to a wife he hates An..."></div> </div> </div>

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