Isolation
By AW
Isolation is not good for no one
Isolation is the killer of affection
One against another grows out of
a detachment born of a separation
born from misunderstanding.
Isolation kills our humanity when
imposed as a weapon to punish
to negate, to debase one’s
Humanity.
Like when the rebel yells
toward onward to freedom
and
The slave screams “No” in
the soft and low voice of
one who will no longer be a
good slave to no one
breathing or dead.
So, no to Isolation’s
whip, lashes of mental torture
Emotional Bondage and Mental Chains
Isolation
Is
Death
Free Mumia and all who does not fear
Freedom.
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