The Blood & The Bones

the world is fucked
but they say it’s me
yet I am not

the only one who sees
how we got so hungry
we binged on promises

we gorged on lies
watching a clock
that’s been ticking
since there was no time

and the wars begin again

and they strip away our rights

you think we fight

against each other

but we are shoulder to shoulder

sisters and brothers

watching it burn

in the eyes of our children
we are a reluctant pod of peas
hand in hand
in hand baskets to hell
left with nothing else
but to embody the mayhem
so, we can be

pitted against each other
accepted then ostracized
by a blindfolded society
labeled as monsters
for wanting

the land of the free

to be free

the blood
& the bones