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from Divided by Zero by Z the Stranger

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One of Slavery:
Children are sold to work in dangerous conditions during the industrial age in Great Britain. One, however, managed to escape.

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Sometimes I find myself
Questioning why I cry for help
When all I’ve been good for is being auctioned off so my parents acquire wealth.
This industry looks sick to me.
In History, the people didn’t need
To stabilize an economy with their children, see,
But how would I know that with my lack of education?
All I know is thread and patiently
Waiting for when this place ain’t ahead of Satan.
It’s like a hell all on it’s own.
Why should I call it home?
Why is it they design the children here to starve alone?

With my eyes I see
So many children being killed.
With my ears I hear
Screams of pain amongst this mill.
With my hands I touch
The lives claimed by these machines.
Please, release me. I need to be free.
With my mouth I taste
Smoke, dust, blood, sweat and tears.
With my nose I smell
Suffocation lasting for years.
With my heart I feel
Like this isn’t what real life
Is supposed to be like.
Please, set me free!

I plan to escape. It’s worth the risk.
I won’t be worried. If
The superiors hear about me, they can’t cause to me the hurting it’s
Already implanted in my psyche. Turning and turning
And burning away at my body like the coals that run it. It’s concerning
To imagine what a kid like me will go through.
If you’re curious, than I’ll show you.
All I eat is porridge. Plain as Tofu
And the dust will begin to choke fools
Who end up in this nightmare.
Never give a slight glare
To the ones who make a living off of making light blares
On your skin right there.
You want to think the fight’s fair, but that’s what we all hope’s true.

With my eyes I see
So many children being killed.
With my ears I hear
Screams of pain amongst this mill.
With my hands I touch
The lives claimed by these machines.
Please, release me. I need to be free.
With my mouth I taste
Smoke, dust, blood, sweat and tears.
With my nose I smell
Suffocation lasting for years.
With my heart I feel
Like this isn’t what real life
Is supposed to be like.
Please, set me free!

I’m living and I’m livid at the civil conditions
I witness when I carry out on my mission.
Misery every minute.
The industries are acquitted
As if it’s Laissez Faire that’s taking over Great Britain.
Never mind what the people think when you’re trying to innovate.
Yet, you need them to listen. That’s how you get them to imitate
What is seen as the low, the middle, the high class syndicates
And deny education so that we never disobey.
This is how you create modern society?
Let the people burn, while the owners rise in the hierarchy?
No wealth was ever spread entirely.
That’s why the higher tease
The children on the pyre, heeding
nothing to their righteous pleas.
Still, I guess it’s for the best.
As the centuries go on and I have nothing in my chest,
Maybe the blood, sweat and tears will finally have a purpose.
Modernization, please don’t deem me worthless.

With my eyes I see
So many children being killed.
With my ears I hear
Screams of pain amongst this mill.
With my hands I touch
The lives claimed by these machines.
Please, release me. I need to be free.
With my mouth I taste
Smoke, dust, blood, sweat and tears.
With my nose I smell
Suffocation lasting for years.
With my heart I feel
Like this isn’t what real life
Is supposed to be like.
Please, set me free!

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from Divided by Zero, released April 15, 2016

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Z the Stranger Rockland, Massachusetts

Allow for all to breathe air as clean as Eden. I will drown in the River Styx and keep the planet eternal, along with all the love in it. Your own beauty is yours and no one else's. I will inject the earth with the divine milk of a ghost's breast and the living will never go thirsty. I still remain a stranger to everyone. ... more

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