{"sf1_id":847589,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Poem - Egality","author":"Michel Corbeau","words":177,"posted_at":"2015-04-14T03:14:00.000Z","tags":["Egality","Poem","Poetry","Verse","equality"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/847589-poem-egality","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/847589","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=847589\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Egality, Egality, was once the heavy dream  \n  \nAs humankind, from history, progressed,  \n  \nEquality had trickled through society, and raised  \n  \nA second levied fight for the oppressed.  \n  \n  \nThis long campaign, the cause where all our years were bound,  \n  \nHas come to us! We're holding vital ground!  \n  \nThis ground . . . the ground we now possess,  \n  \nInherited from generations past; It must be made to last.  \n  \n  \nThe enemy has gotten wise, and sent a host of spies  \n  \nThat undermined our fight, and caused us to regress.  \n  \nThey claim to be our friends, but made our cause a pun.  \n  \nWhat friends are they to us, when hate is all they speak?!  \n  \n  \nReduced to mere automatons from out the spring of youth;  \n  \nNo ear to hear the truth nor wisdom will they seek?  \n  \nOur once essential warriors were made expendable,  \n  \nBecause those joke machines deemed them not dependable.  \n  \n  \nThey shamed these reasoned minds, \"Your brain's too weak!\"  \n  \nAnd still reduce our words to signs of sad absurdity.  \n  \nWe've fought this war for everyone . . . but now,  \n  \nPunch-line: \"Egality!\"  \n  \n\n"}