"Give me liberty, or give me death." – O. Henry (who spent three years in prison)
Without control but flying high
irrelevant of space and time
and any order of the universe,
I just keep wuthering
and can't define my destination,
which keeps baffling me;
and so I just go on
identifying one place in the wrong place
and another one far beyond reach;
as I fall down again into the abyss
of mortality and passion and despair,
the enemy called weakness getting hold of you,
the only possible protection and defense
just being obstinate resistance and protest
against the enemies to my escape
on wings of chance and spiritual fugue
to get away beyond all pettiness,
the only sane environment of any man.
The only liberty is total liberty,
and if that is beyond reach,
the only possible alternative is death,
the definite and ultimate release.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2009-12-02 at 13:18
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Ultimatum
Without control but flying high
irrelevant of space and time
and any order of the universe,
I just keep wuthering
and can't define my destination,
which keeps baffling me;
and so I just go on
identifying one place in the wrong place
and another one far beyond reach;
as I fall down again into the abyss
of mortality and passion and despair,
the enemy called weakness getting hold of you,
the only possible protection and defense
just being obstinate resistance and protest
against the enemies to my escape
on wings of chance and spiritual fugue
to get away beyond all pettiness,
the only sane environment of any man.
The only liberty is total liberty,
and if that is beyond reach,
the only possible alternative is death,
the definite and ultimate release.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 484 times
Written on 2009-12-02 at 13:18
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