tyranny(saurusrex)

it has been said
a well armed populace
is the best defense
against tyranny;
but in fact,
it is the very assurance
of tyranny.

a well-informed populace
is the best defense
against the
defensiveness
that is
tyranny

I've heard it said to me...

and I heard it said to me
"every man...created equally"
maybe they believe it,
but I just can't see it
cause they trynna prevent us to see
we were made for liberty,
so "know the truth...and it will set you free"

Now let me tell y’all
somethin that mean somethin to me:
we all got our own thoughts
about what to believe,
but some want to say what
everyone else oughta be--
that everyone should become
followers of a creed,
in singularity cuz they say we all need
to share one opinion
based on the sayings of a priest
but the problem is that progress is
impossible to achieve
if we all be deceived
to be too intolerant to coexist
as part of the same family
cuz it just sound to crazy and amazing
to be true in reality,
but humanity just cant be seen
divided like how we try to perceive it
cuz different names convey
the same things
even if we dont see it,
so if we embrace that, heavenly grace
is what we finna receive
as we do away with all the hatin
cuz we finally see
that what’s divine is right inside us
when we set ourselves free

and I heard it said to me
"every man...created equally"
maybe they believe it,
but I just can't see it
cause they trynna prevent us to see
we were made for liberty,
so "know the truth...and it will set you free"


O, how amazing this grace
and how sweet it sound;
Oh so crazy these days
cuz it cant be found,
and I’m so disgraced at this place
as I be lookin around at
All of the ways that the same
problems be cycling round,
but, if this state never changes
we all gon drown in a
spiral downward and
I’ll be like “Oh, hell now what?”
and wow,
where can I go now?
I guess I’ll
just hafta figure it out
but what I wonder about
aint the where but the how--
many other people bound
to be left out,
when we got enough to go around
for now
but we just aint passin it out
cuz we too attached and proud,
so what we need to see is that
freedom’s the high road out,
of that, I haven’t a doubt;
we can’t be livin without the rhythm
freedom’s givin us out--
whether it be freestyle or
if it be written down,
if it come in a soft sound
or we jam it out loud
by ourself or if we stand in a crowd
goin in or comin out,
all Jah people know to be devout
stand up and shout for freedom
cuz freedom music be makin
Jah proud!

and I heard it said to me
"every man...created equally"
maybe they believe it,
but I just can't see it
cause they trynna prevent us to see
we were made for liberty,
so "know the truth...and it will set you free"

the end?

The End

We humans are moving
From enslaving one another
(and ourselves)
Directly,
For now we have enslaved
Time itself,
Which has become our new bondage;
For now we have mastered
Nature (so we think),
Which has in turn mastered us
And still we are
Defeated,
Broken,
Yet hoping on...

The Future

things: objectively objecting objectification

Nothing is nothing,
and that is everything,
But if nothing can be everything,
how can everything be nothing?
And everything is also something
but is nothing also something?
Surely something is not nothing,
but is something nothing's opposite,
Or merely the composite
of everything?
Because anything can be something,
but cannot be everything,
Even though if everything cannot be anything,
then everything is nothing,
Which means that everything
is both nothing and something
At the same time,
Needing neither reason nor rhyme
And this can also be said of anything,
Which is thus never solved by
The asking of why;
Everything gets by just fine
before I ever arrive to draw the line
(It all merely lies confined in my mind!)

throne out

Liberating light of the sun
work never is done;
each daylight instant won
till sit he does
upon a Western throne
(when darkness descends
upon the earth)

The throne rules
only in darkness;
when the light comes it is clear
there's merely a chair,
and a majestic golden crown, shed
reveals merely human hair,
for the royalest head
still blows out the same air:
words, thought, are said
in want of care,
and a king, undead,
cannot rule fair.

times

clocks wind round
in lockstep, controlled
but controlling
only minds

the moon makes rounds
of wax and wane,
and with a distant wave
changes the tides!

in whom shall we confide,
for these are not one,
but two times:
the time of life,
and time confined;

for time, defined
is reified, then deified
until defied
by the timeless life
cycle,
when untied and unlocked
from the lifeless time
cycle
of the clock

who is US?

us

The U.S. is
segregated,
divided.
For its state to be united,
Two letters become one "us"
U.S. wants you;
us has you
And me too

Not out of many, one
Have we become;
What's always been
Can never be done
(only undone)
And in its myriad forms,
The world is always one
"us."