Social Justice Warrior

When the war is over what will you do?
When there are no more targets left to hide?
Will your thirst for a fight be satisfied?
Will you accept your soldiers leaving you?
Will you come up with a victory plan?
Will you stop thinking who can take the blame?
Will you be relieved that you can’t complain?
Will you live a life devoid of a clan?
Will you have the means for beating boredom?
Will you have a scheme for being happy?
Will you go forge a new identity?
Will you refrain from making a problem?

Of course not: The anger will never cease
For what’s a warrior in times of peace?


26 May 2019

Human

I’ve been useless, a monster, a crim too

But not today: I won’t be some sad wreck

For the first time I grasp some self-respect

I know that this is something I can do

Driven by a strength that came from nowhere

I will shatter the walls that surround me

I’ll be the storm that makes the demons flee

I will no longer cave into despair

I will embrace myself because I can

I will rise above years of depression

I will move far away from regression

I’ll stand up and declare I’m worth a damn

But wait: You heard? No one likes straight white men

In that case, what was the fucking point then?


26th May 2019

Now that you're in love

So you’re in a relationship. Well done
Through being yourself you’ve scored a love true
You faced the challenge. Beat the odds. You’ve won

 So then: Now what you are going to do?
Will you embrace this truth you’ve found, so clear?
Will you be reborn into something new?

Will you both walk, hand in hand, without fear?
Will you both be yourselves without disguise?
Will you talk up the luck that brought you here?

Will you tell everyone about the highs?
The excitement of a heart in backflips?
Will you face a score of envious eyes?

Will you support other relationships
Straight. Gay. Anyone devoid of trouble?
Will you get to decide who can touch lips?

Will you take your love into a bubble?
And leave everyone else outside, forbid?
Will you revel in being free from struggle?

Will you, to get here, forget what you did?
The pains of loneliness; will you sever?
Keep the secrets to your success well hid?

Will you declare that this love's forever?
Never give single life a backwards glance?
Maintain that you have your shit together?

Will you mock those who struggle in romance?
Who have confidence, social skills lacking?
Like all those times you were denied a chance?

Do your single friends now seem amusing?
What will you do when they ask for advice?
Does being condescending sound tempting?

Will you tell them that they’ll find someone nice?
Will you forget the times when you couldn’t?
Will you find any bullshit will suffice?

Embrace these cruelties? You know you shouldn’t
But of course you will. Because who wouldn’t?


12th December 2018

How to win an argument

Want to know how to win an argument?
Just convince the other guy of your view
Oh and be ready to take on facts new
Forget attacking: It won't make a dent

Listen: Don't interrupt the other guy
You need to follow standards much higher
Don't mislead. Scrap that winning desire
You're there to understand. Not to reply

You must invite your foe onto your side
And you must forgive their past transgression
Ditch humiliation and aggression
For in the end you've got nothing to hide

So then: Now that these truths have come to light
I ask you: Do you still want to be right?


11th December 2018

Emi

Take my hand- we will go walk this city 
Discussing the fine art of crafting words 
Constructing rhyming schemes working in thirds 
All melded together in honesty 
 Merging snarky humour with metaphor 
Breaking in structure with a force restless 
Two torrents with many things to express 
A pair of weavers of words by the score 
Viewing the world with a curious eye 
Walking down a route neither one was prepared 
However there’s no reason to be scared 
Leading each other to summits so high 
The enclosing walls; time to move beyond 
To paths forged out of a creative bond 


Completed: 11th November 2018

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