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slave caste - in obedience trudge along my friend

chained to - a master's fortune that you still defend

robbed of - the will to be any more than this

helpless - without wiser hands to guide your fate

someone came to set your free

left you standing aimless

believing that you'd run take your own existence

but fawning like a dog trying to win back favour

you've crawl right on back

to the one who held you under

now it’s so clear : complacent is how you've been bred

generations uncounted

whipped and broken you cannot fend

thus a lesson learned it seems

that freedom can’t be given

if not taken by show of will, it truly has no value

struggling to deal now that you're free

identity bound to the one you must flee

forever cast as the subservient fool

obsequious subject yet one who resents his rule

bound together slave and master

no escape from your common fate

perverse dependence, lashed together

sinking helplessly, you wait

until at last, you cast the torch

destroying all which you hate

all that your are, your master's splendour

your own pyre, by your own hands ... incinerate