Challenge
Tell me something new
I want to read your individual take on anything BUT telling it in a way I've never heard before - not in books, magazines, movies, tv, films, video games, advertising, social media, quotations, cliches, school. Tell me something new. I'm not looking for experimental formats just simple solid writing from your individual POV and vocabulary. It can be fiction, non-fiction, a poem or prose - no rhyming. 250 word limit.
Historic recurrence
every right claimed
was wrenched from
fingers clutched
to breasts
that would
deny the inalienable
to those
deemed
unworthy;
every freedom held
was seized
by desperate
blood-soaked
hands
reaching
for an ideal
intrinsic
not
granted;
every breath taken
without fear
with
head held high
with lips
that smile
and eyes
that need not
avert
was a breath
born on a scream
a whisper
or a gasp;
so many battles fought
with guns or words
so much blood spilled
in fields or on paper
so many ephemeral victories
so many hearts broken
so many arms
made empty
so many lives
forsaken
so many times
we see the light
only to find ourselves
once again
hurled into darkness.
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