Opinions, Opinions

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Bring your chin to the edge of the table and roll your tongue out

flat like a dead slug, take a scraping of your taste buds

conventional speech will now be banished, puns vanish,

in conversation, dense condescension, identify by sleeve

trust isn't earned anymore, intercept all personalities as duds,

that's what you rotate in circles for, segregated communities, one cannot always deceive

cut the scarlet letter for your disorder in the roof of your mouth if the warnings are something you somehow mismanage

don't you realize you're living with everybody's instability?

Before you're down a dead end road,

slow down and process the information overload

there's no privacy in the path of progress,

your secrets better not exist, regress, be meaningless or harmless

literal translations marked in the margins by martyrs

dancing like satyrs on their victorious gravesites, the effort a culmination, they pun-ish

for all the good their culture does in vindictive service to selective silence, it seems remiss

that essays and humor, misunderstood wit; one misstep all they lash

dyers on hills who recolor the grit and reality of the past

censorship is a dangerous tool

ask any oppressed voice

Censorship changes history's very imagery

omits thought, will, obstacles and triumph and choice!

You are human, your nerves are raw and your heart beats like a drum

when the hand that strikes it stirs your blood, let the outcries come

poetry is unbridled in revolution, furious in chains

a brand that scars the bleary eyes behind all stifled ideas, corked within your brains

the thunder of marches inspired by speeches, the movements and power wielded by wordsmiths

sheer influence that shames Mjolnir or Excalibur, when a million speak as one, cry as one, the tears of one million are torrent rains

within the wildest eyes, brightest minds, purest hearts and kindest souls, waits this now-waning gift

for who can rightly rise in today's vast opera of need?

They call for everything all at once, who can genuinely lead?

All I can say to be honest, not certain, but true

is that thinking different isn't bad;

it's a waste of being an individual to let anyone else do your thinking for you.