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Freedom Or Feel Like Scum


The perfect society knows the balancing 

Between allowing 

Order and chaos flowing

And ever growing. 

However, without free will always apparent 

Deadly would become having a nagging parent 

And impossible would become paying the rent

For one would be to bent

To see from where life was sent 

And to whom life must be lent. 

When people never do die

They always reach for the skies

Always neglecting to buy 

The irrefutable lie. 

When people never do have life

They don't make it through all the strife 

And they never notice the knife 

Behind the perfect, yet in distress wife. 

A country fails when citizens cannot dance

In such a way to forget all about stance. 

Beyond words like that

In order to swing the best ball with the bat

One must notice the rats 

Under the mat. 

Again, when anything is unnoticed 

There is a risk. 

And when anything is denied through expectations 

None can be rightly courageous. 

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