Defiance [August 10, 2015]

An old poem I located.

We live in a land of contempt

Where respect is exempt

Where a belief is held

That there is no reason to Rebel

Rebellious fools end up dead

As the voices whisper with dread

As they are silenced and fed

Lies and promises instead

Liars look on with broken ideals

As they look at others as inferior beings

As they stand so high and mighty

Renegades stand against society

Betrayal and deserters they stand for whats right

As they are pitted against their own in a fight

The liars stand behind their wall

Watching as their own people take the fall

Treasonous cowards, disloyal fiends

Dishonest fighters, faithless murderers

They are made into criminals bound for the gallows

Waging horrific war against their own brothers

Corruption hides within cruel asylum

Time passes, ignited sparks forgotten

Criminals spilled shame, abandoned honor

Against the liars of righteousness

On tattered parchment, words between stains

Written in a common language, crimson pain

Never confessed, the crime of oppression

Dying flame flickered, silencing defiance

Reviews

[EcstaticEuphoria]

Wow! So deep. It's hard to break this down and put it into words. So much raging contempt and fighting the fights of disillusionment for the sake of tearing apart unity and respect for the others, "Waging horrific war against their own brothers". How quickly it is forgotten that they are our own "kin" to distract us from the real tragedy, our own oppression.
"Written in a common language, crimson pain
Never confessed, the crime of oppression"