Lost Freedom

For those who don’t already know This poem is not going to glow and flow It lost its freedom years ago Guess who dictates how the current theme goes Arise, Arise! Freedom is nice Yet freedom itself comes with a price Hence the never-ending sacrifice After years of people giving up lives Assisting us with out struggle to survive To end slavery, to gain independence & to acquire autonomy We have become the latest kind of slave, a slave of technology Our phone conversations are listened to Yet there is no one you can sue Technology is watching us from cameras & satellites Taking away our precious privacy rights Freedom of speech, to those I outreach Does not exist, I teach Say the wrong things and you will be impeached So whilst we have taken One step forward, We have also taken Two steps backwards We the slaves of new technology Why do we embrace this new ideology? Everything about you Can be accessed from a central database Is this just the beginning of a new phase? So Arise, Arise! Freedom is nice But the price of freedom itself equals the withdrawal of freedom for some Hence the never-ending sacrifice 2006 - Sylvia Chidi