Rebuilding

The rot has always been there, raked beneath the leaves Legacies of failure yearning for the thaw Every spoil and flaw stain of human greed preserved in perpetuity - you reap all that you sow' But as the heat strips flesh and lead pierces dreams they'll impress that you're the one who planted the seed See they will paint no doves and they will fold no cranes No bird song on the wind, just the silence of our shame And as the heat strips flesh and lead pierces dreams we'll scuttle in the silt of their greatest levelling On hatred they thrive to mine and divide A distortion of present with histories excised Suffocation and isolation to etch the split, sever the ties But there is contact in grief, union in agony bonded by the guise of every stolen hour And there is latent love in the medicated guilt, beneath dead labour and the laundering of time And as the earth cries its ailing breath what was sold abstract is dragged into view that their only weapon is our devotion to the degradation of dissension How far will you drag the carcass of disgust? How many drowned on the shores of excess? No more abstractions No more chimera of peace Restore the commonality they had you disbelieve in the isolated torment and the identikit stench in every doubt retched into the sink with each empty performance and the modesty to staunch the bleed in the engineered suspicion and cycles of extortion before soil and sky reclaim and all that remains are the pitted scars of what could have stood