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  • Someone Else’s Crime

    Current mood:betrayed

    Someone Else's Crime

    I will grow tomatoes
    When you've set me free.
    I will live at home in peace
    Where all will let me be.

    I will wake up cheerful
    In the morning to the sun.
    I will feel at peace at last,
    Once my Freedom's won.

    I have been imprisoned here
    For someone else's crime.
    I have lived my life in fear,
    And I have done my time.

    All I want, is to feel safe -
    Relaxed and calm and free.
    I have been good, to fellow men.
    Why aren't they good to me?

    I try to keep my head up high,
    Imagining the day
    When I will be allowed to fly,
    When I will go away,

    And wrap myself in someone's arms
    Who knows me as I am.
    I try to think about that day,
    As hard as try I can …

    I will wake up smiling,
    In the morning sun.
    I will kiss the one I love, and
    Once this battle's done …

    I will grow tomatoes in
    My garden in the grass,
    And tie my hair behind my head …
    And when this storm has passed,

    I will sit up late at night
    With cats and cups of tea,
    I will live no more in fright
    Once I have been set free.

    I only want this misery
    And fear and pain to end.
    I only want a life at peace
    Surrounded by my friends.

    But that will be another day.
    Today I must remain
    Within the madness of this place
    In fear, and hope, and pain.

    But always, I hold up my head,
    Imagining the day
    When I will be allowed to go,
    When I will fly away …

    Not now. It isn't over yet
    I must sit out my time,
    As I have done, for all these years,
    For someone else's crime.

    - Written by Anna Vera Williams at Age 33

    May 2008

    Originally Published on Free Poems

    Asian Human Rights Commission

    My poem about human rights, injustice, wrongful imprisonment, and tomatoes.


    9:58 PM
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      • Anna Vera Williams

        Thank you Holly! I am not surprised you can relate to it - I am glad you like it.

        3 years ago
      • Holly Mann

        I absolutely love this Anna. It is perfect and I can relate to it.

        3 years ago

  • Publish Your Writing in my New Website

    Current mood:busy

    I am creating a new website and it is up now, in its formative stages:

    www.poempoempoem.com

    If you have poems, stories, or even song lyrics you would like to publish, please go to:
    www.poempoempoem.com/poemsandstories

    You can also subsribe to be updated as the website grows, at

    www.poempoempoem.com/updatesandnews

    I'm sorry I can't write much more now, I have a lot of work to do to get this site going.  But I hope to get some contributions soon!
    12:49 AM

  • Poem from Anna: My Story


    My Story

    Once there was a little pug
    She snapped and snarled at every thug.
    She had a brain, the thugs had none,
    For they were crass and crude and dumb.
    But when they gathered with their clubs,
    She ran away, that little pug.
    She ducked for cover, panting hard
    And peered out with a pounding heart.
    And when her master wasn't near,
    She shook and trembled with her fear.
    Her master came and chased away
    The stupid thugs. And every day,
    She felt okay, if he was there.
    And when he wasn't, she was scared.

    One day the thugs were growing strong.
    She had been good, she'd done no wrong;
    Her master kept the thugs at bay
    With one low growl, they ran away.
    But that was when the phone call came.
    He had to go. No one to blame.

    The little pug, she shook and cried.
    She said she wouldn't stay alive.
    The thugs were there, at her front door.
    She couldn't hold them anymore.
    She knew that she would be alone.
    She got some money for the phone.
    She banged her head into the wall.
    Her master said, "Well, you can call."
    She shook and cried into the chair ...
    It didn't get her anywhere.
    She prayed to god it was a dream.
    But God was busy, so it seemed.

    And that was when, with breaking glass,
    Something, somewhere, came to pass
    Someone, somehow, cast a spell.
    Against the laughing mites of hell.
    And through the night time, something changed,
    As if the stars had re-arranged.
    And as she slept, we don't know how,
    Her little pout became a growl.

    And when she woke she shook a bit ...
    Okay ... she sobbed and had a fit.
    But only when she was alone,
    Hidden deep within her home.
    But when she stepped out of her door,
    She wasn't crying anymore.
    She looked the thugs straight in the eye.
    She said, "So fight me. Please just try."
    I have had enough of it.
    I care no more, oh not one bit."

    She breathed in deep to swell her ribs
    She put her hands onto her hips.
    She stood on tip-toe when she spoke
    To not look up on taller folk.
    She told the thugs to go to hell.
    She told them she was doing well.
    She grabbed her kids, said "lets go play.
    Let's fight these creeps some other day."

    Now many stories could be told,
    Of how that puppy grew so bold,
    Some stories haven't happened yet
    The war's not over, don't forget.
    Our pug has yet to grow full-strong ...
    But ... wait a minute, that was wrong.
    The little pug has no more time
    To waste her lifetime with this slime.
    Our pug is pretty, cute and smart.
    She won a merit for her art.
    She did what no one else has done;
    Went round the world when she was young.
    She crossed alone the stony steppes,
    When she was sick and nearly dead.
    She can write and learn, and knows
    She makes things better where she goes.
    Her education rivals all
    These pugs are stupid, new, and small.
    They bat their eyes with pimpled cheeks.
    They spread their lies because they're week.

    Our pug has yet one crime alone
    She turned her real self into stone.
    For she is not a pug at all.
    She is a wolf who acts so small.

    Now there's our story, that was how
    The yipping yap became a growl.
    The little pug has far to go.
    But now she sees and now she knows.

    While witches laughed upon their thrones,
    The Lion breathed upon the stone.

    The story hasn't ended here.
    The ending isn't even near.
    This is the beginning now.
    It will be turned around some how.
    And many battles will be fought
    But one day it will be forgot.
    One day the wolf will calmly lie,
    And glare at anyone who tries.
    And one low growl will make them run.
    And that will be a lot of fun.

    But this is how it all began.
    The pug who always ran and ran.
    She turned around and smiled and said,
    "I am myself, and don't forget.
    Now go away and let me be.
    Because I want to have some tea.
    And - oh, yeah, one thing, by the way,
    Don't come again until I say ..."

    Now that's my story, that was how,
    The little yelp became a growl.

    The world was black, but on that day,
    Our pug became a beast of prey.

    Written by Anna Vera Williams
    February 9, 2008

    Dedicated to All the Others
    Free Poems
    2:29 PM

  • How do I Make a Blog

    Current mood:curious

    Well I have some blogger blogs but I am just now figuring out how Myspace blogs work ... 
    5:10 PM

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