Deconstructing Empire

 Deconstructing Empire



We lay to rest another false belief 

The list of casualties increases in our graveyard of lies


Our fate in our own blood soaked hands

Grasping at straws, desperate to save the unsavable 


As the walls close in around us, dare we speak the truth? 


Dissent into chaos 

Our monuments to white supremacy come crashing down


 As antifa are labeled terrorists


Masked protesters agianst fully armed cops with tear gas and guns

Shoot them in the chest, head or leg


Reform is a joke

Deconstruct and rebuild 


Seeing those unseen, 

May our eyes lead to

Truth in action


Seize the momentum 


Do we want to live or die? 


It is moral to act


Deception tactics, 

Don’t be fooled


Peace or death in our lifetime


Evidence that cannot be avoided


Humanity on the rise and here to stay

We demand democracy



Broken record

History has repeated enough


What side of history do we stand on?


We reap what they sowed 


Truth is  treason to those who mislead us


Monumental inaccuracies


With no lamp to guide us we follow a road unseen


Our founders’ faces on stolen land,

 We ask ourselves why we never thought about this till now?


One million voices calling 

Wake up! 


With this voice I speak 

Our silence we must end


Bring on a new  foundation

Deconstruct an empire 


Rushing river

Run to freedom


Building bridges we cross over despite what they  intended as our divisions


There is room in our raft, are you coming? 


Your house is falling-

A house that should never have stood 


Take the white paint out of our history books

May truth emerge 


Our future is ours to make 

Empires will fall 

Like England and Rome they cannot last forever

Borders change as do we

Constantly in motion we move with the events of time


Plant a seed and what truth may grow

Only time can know


From invisible to visible honestly seen

Anti- imperialist mindset

What binds us to empire? 

What good do we lose by letting go? 


Our future shifts into focus 

Through a new lens the picture is clear


Grounded in the truth we seek 

With one voice we speak

As freedom we seek


Democracy will  rise! 





















 

























 






 




 





 


















 

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