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Rebellion is the Reward for Masquerade in Government

  • Gerry Toner
  • Sep 16, 2024
  • 1 min read

The masquerade of government 

The self-love of speeches

The mistaken adulatory applause 

The dislodged sensory power

Drunk on the resonant dancing 

The celebration of your sacrifice 

The disembodied brain

Your vacant imagination 


Thou shalt not murder

The little children look upon

You in your dramatised 

Charade of fawning followers 

God is claimed not unjust

Then they are not your god

You defile your humanity in

Our eyesight and earshot 


The great dead did not

Bequeath this but desire

They wanted better for all

Not a tawdry cabal of speech makers 

There is no kinship in ruling

Immiseration is your legacy

Justifying your cowardice 

Drowning land with fire

Dowsing people with lies


Rebellion rebellion

The people will be called

Rebellion 

 
 
 

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