Behold my stentorian roar Peroration In vehement, bellicose Vituperation Verbose in its prose Overdose inclination Towards mostly morose Evokes ghosts Intimation Past revenants, resonant In my unhesitant Unbridled Diatribe lines’ Leftist sentiment Only sometimes Over-confident, arrogant When my existence itself Is aberrant To reverent Irritants kneeling in Deference To an insouciant idol’s Insistence They pay its lip service’s Idle indifference But mine is a kind Of unspoken rules broken A voluble diffidence Inner-peace woken To worlds at war waging Enslavement wage Graving New power mad-craving Stark raving mad tyrants But pirates still plundering Rites Remain silent The voices Whose choices Are foisted Then hoisted In banner years’ Foreign fears As the truth Disappears And then from chaos Disorder erupts Gushing forth repercussions Of paint brushes hushed For too long The swan song Has been throngs Of hope crushed Til there must Come the ****** Of the poet’s sword Vocal cords Raised Like the fist Of the podium-pounding Upstage Of the passive-resistance To change’s Parade