Freedom or Safety? ©Dawn Minott |a Tanka

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry
Beforeword: I took the picture of a sign I saw alongside a highway because its profundity struck me. It reads: “A society that gives up freedom for safety will lose both”.

It inspired this Tanka:

Safety or freedom
Choosing one we lose them both—
In chains of our choice
Urgent call of liberty
Silenced in our hollow hearts

Afterword: Tanka is a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all. 

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