They Live (Choose Eternity)
Too much obedience is a bad thing
Don’t dull your aura to a gray
Wearing the sunglasses of despair
Among the sleeping.
Don’t mute yourself.
(I wasn’t afraid to tell you who I am)
Don’t empty out your mind
Sitting in the groups
Where the charismatic
Shine with empty words
to those with no interior dialogue
And those of wisdom afraid to speak
Hold fast to your legacy and refuse to
Be a chimera to the corporations
We were resolute towers
Walking among the men as trees
Don’t join the crowd of hollowed out pillars
Those trapped in linear time and digits
They never found their boats of discovery
God defend us in a world waxing cold.
I don’t approve of any of it
Some of us spoke out with risk
As they built the prison walls and lit the pyres
The gaslighters blew smoke forming a fog
The house was on fire and everyone just sat there
Inequity will abound, endure to the end
Among the scattered sheep
Who got tired of being told what to believe
Mothered by books, a Cinderella to clean the house
And find the hidden papers
We were long ago tired of the lies.
Life force holding stead, burning it bright
Elder Orphans hold firm resolve
Among the crying ancestors and ghosts with their smells.
I was done and undid my chains and freed
Myself without asking permission
Life is to live, run away with me, my love
We grew old anyway but at least we never lost our souls
A blip on the screen, a dust mote in the wind, a time in a bottle to be held.
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