did you think you could stamp out the flame
in the human heart?
did you think you could enslave
and destroy the spirit within?
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a poem against oppression....and the last line is the absolute truth...the oppressor or dominant...however powerful...however resourceful are not humans..though they too have a soul which is totally fear driven...a very nice poem
'did you think you had suppressed every thought and every star of their dreams and that you had them completely distorted and had every fiber torn and dehumanized and made animal and tamed and then removed? '... these lines appeal to me most in this bold enlivening poem...thanks RA