(Raise Your Voice) Weapons v.s. Souls (a poem)

Raise Your Voice

Weapons vs. Souls

Started on May 19th, 2011

Finished on May 25th, 2011

You cover your wrongs so the world won’t see

You murder our freedoms, our humanity

Shove a gun down our throats when we try to speak

Block us from the information we seek

The ones who see through your mask disappear

Cutting short opposition by instilling fear

 

Send your pawns to take us out

We’ll face your bullets, unarmed, still we shout

Shoot us down till we’re piled high in the street

Till crimson blood pools around your feet

We died for a cause, died for the future, true and brave

While you hide behind walls, trying to outrun the grave

King in the Cage (a poem)

King in the Cage

Started April 8th, 2011

Finished April 20th, 2011

The whistle blows

And my team breaks

Positioning themselves

I jog alone

To the end of the field

Into the cage

A solitary monument

That I must guard

Without yield

The game is nigh

The ball; the Prize

Tossed high

The players; the Pieces

They surge forward

A wave of bodies

Crashing across the field; the Board.

(Raise Your Voice) The Truth (a poem)

Added to 'Raise Your Voice' collection May 25th, 2011
The Truth

You
And your nasty words
That cut deep like a knife
Right into the life
Of someone beautiful
Who used to smile
Before they met you


They
Don’t know what to do
Just let you cut deeper
And deeper
Picking them apart
Revealing all of their insecurities
To the world
Leaving them weak and sore
Crying in the corner
Thinking they are unloved
Unwanted
Discarded