<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beyond Our Prison Walls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">our prisons are too many<br>the penalties imposed upon us<br>are heavy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">everything is passed from one mouth<br>to another<br>this prison of tradition <br>and what we have are just kettles and<br>ladles<br>a few spoons and some<br>crooked forks<br>some moldy fats of pork<br>and hardened bread like bricks<br>upon our walls and rooms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am tired of those other prisons<br>handed to us and<br>well kept by our respect for what<br>is old </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the mind is the prison<br>and thoughts and imagination are our wings to our well deserved freedom<br>we do not deserve this<br>weakness this self imposed defeat<br>we are not worms <br>we butterflies and all these fragile wings<br>shall take us<br>beyond the tops of molded hills<br>beyond us<br>our better selves <br>our very own proclamations that we are not the children and heirs<br>of gods<br>but that we too <br>are godly creatures with divinity in our hearts<br>our sacrileges tattooed on our skins and bones</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=486415" data-title="Beyond Our Prison Walls de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="our prisons are too many the penalties imposed upon us are heavy everything is passed from one mouth to another this prison of tradition and what we have are just kettles and ladles a few spoons and some crooked forks some moldy fats of pork and..."></div> </div> </div>

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