"All men are created equal."
Abraham Lincoln
All men may be created equal, but the equality on this earth is it distributed fairly? Abraham Lincoln would be appalled to view the regression of mankind. Would he wonder if all of his work had been in vain? How would he react seeing man still recklessly killing man and forcing them into just another form of slavery?
There was firsthand experience of prejudice growing up in Chicago. Awareness of injustice increased during college. Then the Vietnam War blatantly demonstrated the foolish waste of war. The Civil Rights movement instilled hope in many supporting diversities of body, mind and spirit. Truly, I believed the world would be vastly different by now.
My nightmare shows a dried-up field with empty chairs. Loneliness prevails as there are no more discussions or pleasantries. There are no more individuals, free. The atmosphere is a blanket of heaviness representing submission and repression. Clearly, there are no bells of freedom. just the presence of death. And this was just a dream, right?
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