Oppression Poem by Langston Hughes

Oppression

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Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.

In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail
But the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail.

Langston Hughes
Friday, January 3, 2003
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Dominique Gray 08 November 2006

Love it

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Kerry Dunoe 08 April 2005

It has to much feeling

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