For those who don’t already know <br />This poem is not going to glow and flow <br />It lost its freedom years ago <br />Guess who dictates how the current theme goes <br /> <br />Arise, Arise! <br />Freedom is nice <br />Yet freedom itself comes with a price <br />Hence the never-ending sacrifice <br /> <br />After years of people giving up lives <br />Assisting us with out struggle to survive <br />To end slavery, to gain independence & to acquire autonomy <br />We have become the latest kind of slave, a slave of technology <br /> <br />Our phone conversations are listened to <br />Yet there is no one you can sue <br />Technology is watching us from cameras & satellites <br />Taking away our precious privacy rights <br /> <br />Freedom of speech, to those I outreach <br />Does not exist, I teach <br />Say the wrong things and you will be impeached <br /> <br />So whilst we have taken <br />One step forward, <br />We have also taken <br />Two steps backwards <br />We the slaves of new technology <br />Why do we embrace this new ideology? <br /> <br />Everything about you <br />Can be accessed from a central database <br />Is this just the beginning of a new phase? <br /> <br />So Arise, Arise! <br />Freedom is nice <br />But the price of freedom itself <br />equals the withdrawal of freedom for some <br />Hence the never-ending sacrifice <br />2006 - Sylvia Chidi<br /><br />Sylvia Chidi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lost-freedom/
