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Or Give Me Death

A Lyrical Poem

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Stone Bryson
Feb 27, 2024
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Here’s a verse or two I scribbled out back in March of 2011…

Or Give Me Death

If you gain peace through surrender…
what use is your peace?
Where's the value in prosperity
if you’re crawling on your knees?
How comforting are your amusements
if you are not your own?
What good is life, if it must bow…
to a blood-soaked throne?

Illusion breeds and spreads li…

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