Rebuilding

The rot has always been there, raked beneath the leaves

Legacies of failure yearning for the thaw

Every spoil and flaw stain of human greed

Preserved in perpetuity - you reap all that you sow'

But as the heat strips flesh and lead pierces dreams

They'll impress that you're the one who planted the seed

See they will paint no doves and they will fold no cranes

No bird song on the wind, just the silence of our shame

And as the heat strips flesh and lead pierces dreams

We'll scuttle in the silt of their greatest levelling

On hatred they thrive

To mine and divide

A distortion of present

With histories excised

Suffocation and isolation

To etch the split, sever the ties

But there is contact in grief, union in agony

Bonded by the guise of every stolen hour

And there is latent love in the medicated guilt

Beneath dead labour and the laundering of time

And as the earth cries

Its ailing breath

What was sold abstract

Is dragged into view

That their only weapon

Is our devotion

To the degradation

Of dissension

How far will you drag the carcass of disgust?

How many drowned on the shores of excess?

No more abstractions

No more chimera of peace

Restore the commonality

They had you disbelieve

In the isolated torment

And the identikit stench

In every doubt retched into the sink

With each empty performance

And the modesty to staunch the bleed

In the engineered suspicion

And cycles of extortion

Before soil and sky reclaim

And all that remains

Are the pitted scars

Of what could have stood