Disdain

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You stand afar and watch
How my clamours have no meaning
And my hope glitters in ashes--
Yet I write you a poem,
One which slaves did sing
And their shackles cried and fled--
Yet I read you a poem,
With my self-liberated being,
But again they have no meaning
Like hope without despair.

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