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Let Me Be Free

A Play Off of Langston Hughes Poem

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Let Me Be Free
Ruby Reminisce

Let me be free once more, like a black bird of porcelain feathers;

soaring majestically through the sky,

untouched by human hands yet seen by many.

Let me see, this time, with my own two eyes the very essence of the graceful soul within,

the mundane aspects becoming something to revere.

Let me be free once more, swept away on the wings of change;

the myths from the past becoming more than they were ever supposed to be,

more than actual reality.

This time, within my own self, will the changes be burned forever in my memory,

though the past still dwells inside my veins.

New life will begin to grow and create more myth that will soon come to be truth,

helping to mold a new society that one can live in among their own free will untainted by the lies that once spread like a wildfire.

The humans who spread the fire and forced the dragons to lose themselves and their pride becoming nothing more than lowly servants;

a symbol of the rights once taken and now given back.

Let me douse the fire with the pureness of the honest truth,

the coolest of water bending and turning to give that freedom to the ones who are imprisoned and wish for that escape.

Tonight marks the end of the treason against humanity.

The once repressed openly express their presence to the majority, baring their teeth in victory as they surpass their ‘masters’.

A vast minority that rose to be something more than they were meant to,

loved by many and feared by few.
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