Taking a Stand
¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Not required, and may not be relevant to what’s being talked about in class… but since I’m doing The Ones that Walk Away From Omelas in class, I thought I’d offer my own reflection on the piece, if anyone would care to look. Enjoy.
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¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Taking a Stand
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¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 For every price a power
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 And so it goes, or so they say
¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 But what power and what price
¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Who says it so, these lords of power?
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¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 The power a city grown rich with people,
¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 In song and story and which does not speak
¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 Of shallow and sad and unquiet things
¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 They sacrificed to build. Perhaps.
¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Or perhaps it is in the hands of a battered
¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 child
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¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 A nameless helpless child who cannot last
¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 The fate of a people in his unknowing grasp
¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 (or hers, the writing does not say)
¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 And if that child could only stand
¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 And *know*
¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 What power, what strength does she truly hold?
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¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 What happens then, the child stands up
¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 And walks away
¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 (she always could)
¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 What then remains
¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 (perhaps he should)
¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 In Omelas?
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¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 For every price a power
¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 And so they say, or so it goes
¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 And what offered and what owed
¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 Who pays it so, these lords of power?
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¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 The price a child that suffers empty eyed
¶ 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 In filth and fear and can no longer speak a name
¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 Of light and joy and happy things
¶ 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 They sacrificed of it. Perhaps.
¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 Or perhaps it is given up by a trusting
¶ 42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 child
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¶ 44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 Each bright-eyed child to learn and grow
¶ 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 To convince itself it is better so
¶ 46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 (or leave, and change nothing in that way)
¶ 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 And when that child might reach out its hand
¶ 48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 And *know*
¶ 49 Leave a comment on paragraph 49 0 What paid, what lost from mind or heart or soul?
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¶ 51 Leave a comment on paragraph 51 0 What happens then, they both stand up
¶ 52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 And walk away
¶ 53 Leave a comment on paragraph 53 0 (its evil, true)
¶ 54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 What then remains
¶ 55 Leave a comment on paragraph 55 0 (what good they do)
¶ 56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 In Omelas?
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