in depth look at poem: This poem was written as an assignment for senior english class. (The teacher is a wonderful christian teacher that I was blessed to be in the class of.) The assignment was simply to write a sonnet. The only thing it had to have was an abbaabbacddcee rhyme scheme.


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why do so many people disrespect me
they try to bring me into their control
they say God doesn't love me, that I have no soul.
why are they so blind, why can't they see
my God's love and how I am what He wants me to be.
they put up a wall, they charge me a toll
for what I believe in, they make me feel unwhole.

but I won't believe what they say, because I'm free
from the chains that used to have me in a cage.
I won't be influenced by what others think.
I won't live my life on the brink
between good and evil, between peace and rage.
I will depend on the peace from up above
that comes down upon me like a dove.

-Jonathan Johnston


© Copyright 1997 Jonathan E. Johnston


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