A declaration of my freedoms, responsibilities, and principles
With my hand on my heart
: Inspired by the book “Life in the UK” and my life
*
Like ‘the Blitz spirit’ during the war
I intend to survive any invasion to come
On my soul or body or any part of it
Connected with me anyhow
*
I will not allow injustice and breaking the law
To take effect in my seat
I will fight all discrimination, racism, and beliefs
Demanding their rights against freedom of speech
*
I will not be silent when someone depreciates
Me or anyone or anything around me
Unlawfully, inhumanly, unfairly
For I swear to protect the weak from the wicked
*
I will oppose any fabrication of truth
By fabricated figures, even in the family
As everywhere, I will point out injustice
In every aspect of our lives
*
No field is fully free of it
Therefore, we must find it and fight it
Regardless of the cost
Our health is at stake
*
If others before us could, we can too
Even if the war didn’t break out on our hands
And yet we will fight on every front
Until the last breath
*
With the tools of modern society
If we are not educated enough
We find the right people who are
And we will build strong arms of resistance
*
Against evil flowing inconsistently
From many sides of a divided society
With the legitimate people, we will fight it
Restoring the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in our hearts
*
Just as Mother Earth has taught us for centuries
Creating communities worth constructing a better world
Away from the five ‘Giant Evils’:
Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, Idleness
*
Away from violence
Executed on our hearts and souls
As always, we had it and wanted to give it to the world
Before it is too late to think about it
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4 June 2022
revised on 29 September 2022
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