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We'd All Be Free If You'd Just Let Me Go

March 27, 2012
By EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
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&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

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Every thing's a cage.
Every name, every label,
All of it,
And it's all been holding us down.
Shame, shame,
I don't wanna live life in a cage.
I wanna fly free,
But not in an Emily Sky.
I just want a sky.

© Michelle F., Port Charlotte, FL

The author's comments:
As you can tell, I really hate how people will often try to define each other with a few words. You can't capture who a person is in one meager label, it's just not possible. All it ever does is hold people back and make them think they dress the wrong way, or they're interested in the wrong kind of thing, or they like the wrong kind of people.
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EPluribusUnum DIAMOND said...
on Jan. 15 2013 at 10:12 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

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Thank you! To be honest, it just kinda popped in my head one day so instead of doing my homework I literally wrote it in the TI submission box. I'm so glad it worked out.
3dancer SILVER said...
on Jan. 10 2013 at 2:56 pm
3dancer SILVER, Windsor, Colorado
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&quot;Imagination will often carry us to worlds that we never were. But without it we go nowhere!&quot;

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Wow this is really meaningful. It's explains just how I feel a lot of the time! Its a really beutiful poem.
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND said...
on Apr. 13 2012 at 4:33 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

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Thanks for your comment! :)
butterfly123 said...
on Apr. 12 2012 at 2:22 am
butterfly123, Banglore, Other
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hey! i love this!!! it is short yet so meaningful. it has a certain depth in it. great work and keep writing! XD