Revolution

So, you want to start a revolution?
Do you want to stand up and have your say?
Want to give answers but no solution?

You want a change to come without delay?
Does explaining make you feel like a tool?
You want conversations that go one way?

Want to challenge the incompetent’s rule?
Think the masses are under the wrong crown?
Does guilt and social pressure sound useful?

Tired of being greeted with a frown?
You want to back those fighting the good fights?
Want to use any pretense to take down?

Want to declare who receives equal rights?
Want the bad guys take account for their sins?
Got revisionist history in sights?

Want bring down your tyrannical kings?
Drag them straight to the depths of the Nine Hells?
Want to decide who loses and who wins?

Want the timid to come out of their shells?
Tell them their voice matters and they’re a gem?
Sick of being happy for someone else?

You got a cause no one would dare condemn?
You, for said cause, prepared to travel far?
You want someone else to be the problem?

Will you face down every critic bizarre?
You have many comebacks primed and ready?
Want to decide who the outsiders are?

Do you have any plans post-victory?
Why give such a possibility thought?
For what’s a fighter with no enemy?


25th October 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion (Redux)

The power to exclude: The sweetest thing

An intoxication few can refuse

It divides the lies from which truth to use

Decides who will lose and who’ll be winning

The power to exclude: It writes the rules

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

It welcomes the down-trodden with arms wide 

Promotes inclusion just not with the fools

The power to exclude: Puts me in charge 

Decides who will speak and who to ignore

Saves me from the scum. Make me something more

Makes me drown out anyone, small or large


The power to exclude. You know it’s true

And if you held it you’d do the same too



11th October 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion

I will tell you how things work in this life

What needs to be said. What we need to do

I’m for inclusiveness when it’s not with you

And I bet this knowledge cuts like a knife

The crowd I lead is the one that’s correct

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

I’ll welcome the down-trodden with arms wide

Disagree with me, if once, and you’re wrecked

I have time for them but you? I ignore

I don't care about what's holding you back

Your weakness is showing so I attack

You just keep on being you. Close the door

This is my truth and this is what I do

And admit it: you would do the same too

8th October 2018

Untitled (II)

See the one face you have seen every day

Run errands because they won’t leave the house

Hear many stories ‘bout their ex, the louse

Have fights that end with them getting their way

Lending money, no return when it’s due

Being powerless when they throw a fit

Do things through being made to feel like shit

Demands to know where you go, what you do

Have friends concerned for you left on the shelves

Be forbid from seeing your family

Be told, yet again, that “You complete me”

Only staying so they don't hurt themselves

Face a truth too ingrained to break this curse

The truth that loneliness is so much worse

8th October 2018