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From: mhauck@ihuxk.UUCP (MJH)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: In the End
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 11:47:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 11:47:33 1985
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In the end 6/3/85

Freedom does not come from running
Because the memories still remain
Freedom comes with death
And death I do now seek.

Since life has chosen to beat me
I will not try and resist
Let the lash fall hard and painful
And I can bleed to death

For I have been give an ugly world
To work and receive no reward
I can not complain, just obey
Relieve the burdens of another

And so my spirit will die
Trample as the other reaches the top
I will leave only the shell
To do as told, obey and survive

But is this survival, in losing self
To sacrifice what makes me alive
For the preservation of the other
And why does the other ask this of me

I will continue, must continue
For a time, so short is time
Release me from this torment
Give me the freedom to fly

Mary Hauck
This may be the last I publish for a while on the net.  I become a
housewife on June 29.  I have my husband login to use, but I don't
know how much I want to write now, we'll see.
Thank you for all the wonderful responses, comments and conversations
that I have had since starting on net.poems.
Mary Hauck