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"No Chains Can Hold Them."-by Chris Bright & Matthew F. Blowers III
No chains can hold them
Chains forged by men
who lust for power
and worship greed
they gather round
the fires of history
to watch the next
unfolding of hope's
last dance
~
I felt the crimson
blaze on my cheeks,
mesmerized by the dance
of a young nubile creature,
slipping between the smoke
and the shadows cast by
the consumption of the moment......
it was as if time froze
in the face of such heat,
and all were caught up
in the passion of the act...
like a Chinese woman dancing
in front of a tank to show rebellion,
a Kent state student
slipping a flower into
the barrel of a gun
just hours before she was shot,
simply dancing in the face of fools,
no ballet nor fine art performance
would ever resound as loudly
or as touchingly as the brave dances
of those who believe
beyond their own breath
in justice and peace.....
at any cost.....
~
no chains can hold a soul,
though men have tried
they fly away and take
the essence of all that
cannot be bound by earthly grief.
even the slaves who worked
in the blazing fields
created some of the most lovely
and haunting spirituals
that they sang as they picked......
out of oppression has come
so many great works,
the diary of Anne Frank.....or
the novel, by a white man
disguised as a black man who spent
a whole year being persecuted....
Martin Luther King plucked
from a balcony by madman
but then set upon a mountaintop
where he found all are equal in the
loving eyes of God.
a Cherokee mother
covering her children
with her own body as the bullets
of white men pierced and delivered her
to the great spirit who granted
her the happiness denied her
the examples are endless
unchained melodies that will
burden the hearts of those evil
and ring in the hearts
of the pure forever more.......
Marvelous music composed &
played by-Chris Bright-(c)-2023
Lyrics & Vocals written & sung by
Matthew F. Blowers III-(c)-2023 at:
Art~Whimsically Yours Studio
photo credit to: unsplash.com
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By Art~Whimsically YoursNo chains can hold them
Chains forged by men
who lust for power
and worship greed
they gather round
the fires of history
to watch the next
unfolding of hope's
last dance
~
I felt the crimson
blaze on my cheeks,
mesmerized by the dance
of a young nubile creature,
slipping between the smoke
and the shadows cast by
the consumption of the moment......
it was as if time froze
in the face of such heat,
and all were caught up
in the passion of the act...
like a Chinese woman dancing
in front of a tank to show rebellion,
a Kent state student
slipping a flower into
the barrel of a gun
just hours before she was shot,
simply dancing in the face of fools,
no ballet nor fine art performance
would ever resound as loudly
or as touchingly as the brave dances
of those who believe
beyond their own breath
in justice and peace.....
at any cost.....
~
no chains can hold a soul,
though men have tried
they fly away and take
the essence of all that
cannot be bound by earthly grief.
even the slaves who worked
in the blazing fields
created some of the most lovely
and haunting spirituals
that they sang as they picked......
out of oppression has come
so many great works,
the diary of Anne Frank.....or
the novel, by a white man
disguised as a black man who spent
a whole year being persecuted....
Martin Luther King plucked
from a balcony by madman
but then set upon a mountaintop
where he found all are equal in the
loving eyes of God.
a Cherokee mother
covering her children
with her own body as the bullets
of white men pierced and delivered her
to the great spirit who granted
her the happiness denied her
the examples are endless
unchained melodies that will
burden the hearts of those evil
and ring in the hearts
of the pure forever more.......
Marvelous music composed &
played by-Chris Bright-(c)-2023
Lyrics & Vocals written & sung by
Matthew F. Blowers III-(c)-2023 at:
Art~Whimsically Yours Studio
photo credit to: unsplash.com