40 lines
1.1 KiB
Text
40 lines
1.1 KiB
Text
|
No Sustained State Has Ever Existed
|
||
|
|
(All Empires Fall Eventually)
|
||
|
|
2020-08-16
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
***
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
you can talk of human nature,
|
||
|
|
how I need a preacher
|
||
|
|
to tell me I don't deserve infinity,
|
||
|
|
how I don't deserve to *breathe* and *live free*.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
it hurts me to say, I thought you were close
|
||
|
|
to seeing behind the veil so thin as a ghost.
|
||
|
|
no matter, no wait: I'll still cease this pain!
|
||
|
|
no revolution needed to break these chains!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
why should I care about the sleepwalking masses
|
||
|
|
with their corporatist bows and their highway overpasses?
|
||
|
|
why should I live under tyranny's grasp
|
||
|
|
just because of the failures of those in the past?
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I know not who you spoke to; I know not what you "learned"
|
||
|
|
to make liberty to you so easily spurned.
|
||
|
|
I'll go it alone if I can, if I must
|
||
|
|
walk down this path without anyone I can trust.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
your Stalins and Maos and Lenins breathe no more,
|
||
|
|
but through my veins burns dear Novatore!
|
||
|
|
I am a Goddess-sent beast, a destroyer of cages,
|
||
|
|
through my harsh-spoken words and knobby phalanges!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
No war but my war,
|
||
|
|
no cause but my cause,
|
||
|
|
no power but my power,
|
||
|
|
no laws but my laws!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
***
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander
|