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FOR HOW LONG?


For how long will you live in darkness?

For how long will you live in foolishness?

For how long will you live in selfishness?

For how long will you remain in emptiness?

For how long will you live in uselessness?

For how long will you stay in blindness?

For how long will you remain in deafness?

For how long will you remain in muteness?

For how long will you remain in helplessness?

For how long will you remain voiceless?


For how long will you remain in bondage?

For how long will you be a used tool?

For how long will your freedom remain a liability?

For how long will you ignore your potential?

For how long will you remain silent?

For how long will you continue in war?


For how long will you wait to be free?

For how long should you remain imprisoned in your own home?

For how long will the law fail to be law?

For how long will innocent people be victimized?

For how long will you remain under abuse?

For how long will you suffer unnecessary suffering?

For how long will you be trampled upon?

For how long do you want to remain this way?


If you are not safe, others are not safe.


Do not remain in the bondage of fear

Do not cling into thorns of broken decisions.

Break the chains of lawlessness

Be free forever from human slavery.


You are the citizen of your own thoughts

You are the fire of your own voice.

If something is possible for another person

Then same something is possible for you too.


Your Voice, Your Power

Silence never heals


Help someone in prison today.

He may be there not because of his own will,

Because there is a lack of will to save him


Sir. Abunerry

Writer Critic and Poet

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