Those who think they hold us to heel When they bask in the light of our hallucination Think control will keep at bay what’s real By manipulating parties, media and nation.
But illusion has captured them as well. Decades passed and truth repressed Leave them under the deceiving spell Of fleeting power with no regress
We know that truth has no party here Where success finds only the greedy few Perpetuating facades and grinding gears Which cause such pain and crush the new
But the power lies in the peoples’ hands Which build the pedestals from which greed falls And demand control throughout the lands In hopes their pride will conquer all
In our hopeless desire for personal glory We ignore the love we owe each other And leave the selfish to write our story Forgetting each man is our brother
This freedom that we feel together Manifests itself between us now If we heed its virtuous call to weather The trials our fate can’t disavow:
Cast off illusion from your mind! Cast off your party: left and right More powerful than a memory’s bind Is present freedom’s eternal light
Destiny makes this our cause Against loves’ division by selfish hate So we can walk as one: free of laws And live together without the state
The title comes from a famous book by Georges Sorel. I just finished this poem a second ago. It is my first overtly political poem. It can be found on my blog http://the-they.blogspot.com/
It's not right vs left, capitalism vs anti-capitalism. It's love vs hate, freedom vs slavery. I love you all. Even if you're a ****-communist.