Underlined References: MLK, Thoreau, Gandhi & 5 major religions
Prologue
As if books and pens
Would come to our defense,
When they split the atom,
We hid under our desks
Took a third
Of our paychecks
Spent it on weapons…
They swore only to use…
In our defense
But it wasn’t true
Budgets grew and grew
We The People
And lawmakers
Never refused
Sam ground chuck Charlie
Into workhorse mules
Would-be heroes were led
By narcissist fools
The only true heroes
Broke the rules
The only “right ideal”
Is the one we refuse
Act I
The only sworn enemy in all of the land
Is the dutiful faith of an ignorant man
When good men do the bidding of tyrannical minds
It’s good men who’ve committed the most ungodly crimes
The left blamed the right, and the right blamed the left
The north blamed the south, and the east blamed the west
Christians blamed Muslims who blamed Hindus and Jews
Everyone else blamed social media and 24-hour news
Every side stood for some elusive cause
Though no one knew exactly what it was
Each party devised its own makeshift enemy
Justice waged war on freedom vs. liberty
They all pointed fingers above from below
Guiltless blame compounded as it passed up the totem pole
The whole world became a reenactment of Nuremberg Trials
No one took responsibility, and everyone complied
They called peace a weakness and carnage a strength
It took a thousand times more courage to resist than to obey
This is the One Truth that gets lost in the trust:
Corruption can’t function without us
Friends became soldiers, rife with vengeance
Dying was the Catch-22 of winning
The colonel said, “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
No matter what happens, God’s just testing us”
Part and parcel, impartial, not impugn, coerced
Every last soldier rode home in a hearse
Dug into their trenches, as they laid in wait
They died for three inches of foreign terrain
The pageantry of death, a flag draped over a coffin
They sounded a bugle, shot their guns off at God
The pomp and propaganda rallied more for their cause
And that’s how the war carried on… and on…
Act II
This sphere has no sides from where God sits
Yet everyone’s assured, “God wants our side to win”
They say, “Everything in this world kills for a living”
Yes, but who in this world has the will to forgive us?
If death was your duty, death was your only friend
There were 8 billion ways to lose and only one way to win
The only “united nations” were the Ticos and Swiss
Who laid down their arms and unclenched their fists
The only “good guys” took aim to miss
The only “good guys” resolutely resist
The blind led the blind with an eye for an eye
They all used holy books to justify their crimes
From slavery to war to mass genocide
Everyone always said God was on their side
Of the dove and the lion of Mecca and Zion
In the words of Jibreel and the tears of Jeremiah
Violence is the lost cause of the mire of maya
The only real fight is with the silence inside us
Act III
The servile servants of the sycophant circus
Hid their egotist’s crimes behind red curtains
No accounting for actions, reactions fired back
Shotgun always goes off in the third act
Our rebellion of the heart refused to take part
In the crimes against nature before they could start
Non-violent protestors only allegiances:
Conscientious objection and civil disobedience
We are the voice who is always listening
Our commitment is to truth, not to consistency
We’re no-mans-land’s borders, and our only mission:
To remain humane in spite of inhuman resistance
We are the voice who is always listening
Our commitment is to truth, not to consistency
We are no one’s belief, and no one’s opinion,
Nobody’s ideals, and nobody’s minions
We are no one’s reaction, no nobody’s response
We’re no one’s faction at nobody’s cost
We’re no one’s nation, religion or race
We are responsible for the world we make