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Mira Lamb Aug 2014
We gather here in the square, for what we believe.
There are shots and bangs but we still remain.
We stand together, all are united.
If death shall come, I will still stand firm.
Until our voices are heard, we shout – we shout!
A place of pride and dignity.

Dealing with the same tools as the one before
We left before it was finished.
“This is a warning! Leave! Go home!”
We will stand as the pyramids strong and forever.
They try to sweep us away like sand,
but firm we will stand.
The battle is in the images.
The battle is in the stories.
The battle is in the scars upon your back.

They want to take back the square
Our backs toward the sun
When we finally bow down,
we all bow together in prayer
but just as suddenly, we turn on one another.
Anger and arrogance –
hijacking our revolution.

They crush us with their wheels
but they cannot crush our souls
The stand becomes a war
The good become traitors,
and traitors become heroes.
I wrote this after watching the documentary called "The Square" about the Egyptian revolution that began early in 2011
Big Virge Aug 2014
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Avery Glows Jul 2014
It's not
like the movies, or shows
the books and the novels.
hollywood's way of
cheesy gimmicks.
It's not
like the Hunger Games!
Where people are injected
with sweet venom of
credulous lies.
Where 2 tributes disappears.
Every year.
Because,
right now, right here,
we have more.

It is 2053.
Promises long gone.
Contracts expired and
conspiracy failed.
Betrayed.
Lied to.
Indoctrinated.
Abandoned.
Hands over heads.
We, at the mercy of
the Red Dragon.
His highness roams.
We, losing our grasps,
collapsing.

I dreamed a home of peace,
safe, with freedom.
But it crumpled into
a million pieces.
No more teases.
When they had won.

Some people fled.
Unbearable of
the roads, tainted red.
They got lucky.
But I'm just a fuming middle aged
worthless powerless whatshername.
Talk about pity.

"I'm young!"
But you'll grow old.
And I tell you of this.
I warn you of this!
Because I see it
so clearly,
so vividly,
in your eyes.
I see no future of us.
Just our minds twisted.
Blood and gore mixed
with all that we witnessed.
Just healthy looking robots.
Patriotic robots.
Who has forgotten
everything.
For,
Hong Kong. And all people there trying to defend it.
It's hard, I know. It's a struggle, with no end. It's getting messier, day by day. But this is our place, our land, our home. And we defend it.
Stay strong hkgers.
Dilaw* na *laso
Para sa pusturang laos
Tatak Pilipino
Kahihiyan naman ang puntos na dala.

Daraan ang bisekleta ni Juan
At titilapon ang mga matitining
Na Animo Rizal
Doon sa Puting Palasyo

Dilaw na laso
Laban sa Korte Suprema
Kung sinong naghalal at nagluklok
Siya ring magpapalaya
Malayo lamang tayo
Sa humihilik na *kasinungalingan
Ilang dekada na
Lumaban ka raw para sa amin
Hindi ko man lamang naabutan
Patungo raw iyon sa demokrasya.

Tingnan mo kami ngayon
Ang daang matuwid ay putikan
Ganito pala ang lasa ng imoralidad
Na kayo-kayo rin ang nagtimpla.

Marami nang nakatikim
Ng pait at kakunatan ng inyong hain
Ilan pa ba ang papalasapin?
Kaawa-awang mga dila
Mapapaso't kikirot
Dulot ng sarili ninyong mantika.

Katulad ng ibang baboy,
Ilalabas ka sa hawla
Nakalilihi ba doon?
Kaya nanlumo kayo sa taba
Tabang walang kainaman
Hindi magamit panggisa ng kamalian.

Sandamakmak pala kayo
Nagsanib-puwersa sa looban
Pinakakain nang tama, pinagsisilbihan
Bagkus tambay sa kurapsyon
Sa kulungang may posisyon.

Bakal ang tali nyo
Kaya't sumuko na't wag pumiglas
Pagkat sa putikan ang  ruta
Yang putikang kayo rin ang may gawa.
Napanood ko sa TV ang pagpa-check up ni Enrile.
Maeve Jul 2014
Travel he must
And travel he will
But never without the public expectation
That he was there to ****.

He took to the sky
With his dulled chocolate skin
Ah, the perfect scapegoat
The man in the turban

Typical and expected,
There is a bomb on this flight.
But not so expected, yet so typical,
The man who placed it here is white

With guilt and regret,
He watches the passengers go up in flames
Though he is glad that his country
will be given a different person to blame

A terrorist
When will they leave us alone?

I'm just curious
Does anyone even remember what country we've been told they're from?

That brown man did not bomb that plane
He did not come here with intentions to destroy
He is not the monster you are, and on this man your corruption is displayed.
Age twenty, to be exact. He was only just a ******* boy.

And you killed him, along with 149 others.
You then proceeded to tell more than 315 million people that it was a suicide bomb, a terrorist attack, all credits given to the Israeli.
Ha.
If you wanted to talk about a terrorist, you should've written an autobiography.

Nationalism
Nationalism
Nationalism
It is a nail that has been so drilled into your very being, it has ripped through the other side.
You are a robot, a political Frankenstein. None of these parts are yours, each brain cell has been donated by a false newscast or presidential speech.
"A foreign terrorist" - wait.
Perhaps the "foreign" isn't needed. Every mere speck of dust from the Eastern part of the world is considered a terrorist.
In fact, is anywhere even really part of the world if it is not in America?
Anyway,
"A terrorist has bombed our plane,"
they tell you.
Racial slurs are heard in every living room, coffee shop, and office.
Thank you for giving us another reason to hate any country besides our own.
Thank you for killing their families, and letting his family grieve not only for his death but also for the fact that the world hates the man he was not, for a lifestyle he did not live.

*Do you love our country now?
one of our government members bombed  a plane and blamed it on an israeli to increase nationalism. idk if any of it makes sense
Pax Jun 2014
Damnation of the Mind
In Society’s eyes, I commit a Crime.

Freedom mistook as a Sin
“For I’m always right”, says the Red Queen.

I scattered my scrappy writes
In this forest full of lies

I am as good as dead
For I am never needed
Naked to the bone
A far away star, I am alone.

“I am your salvation”, says the Holy King
I oblige for that’s what I think is right, Lamenting
Oh, Holy king, I can’t stop wondering
The man made crisis keeps on repeating
Driven by powerful Need
They hunger for what they don’t Need

I am in a brink of exhaustion
Many hides in the facade of beautiful illusion
Creation for an easy solution

Abundance is slowly fading
Our soulful purity is slowly dying.

*© Pax
mandy rigby Jun 2014
I'm going to start,
a revolution.
Mess with the government,
fk their constitution

I'm going to put them,
on minimum wage,
sit right back,
and watch them rage

Gonna drug test them,
3 times a week.
Keep them quiet,
so they don't speak

Show them how it feel's,
not to be trusted,
send the police round their house,
and watch them get busted

These are a few idea's.
I've got a load more.
Gonna go to number 10,
and knock on their door

(c) mandy rigby 06/02/2014
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