What virtues do we hold dear

In a world ruled by fear?

Kindness, compassion, a conscience clear

Actions in gear so we near peace and cheer

But this peace is on a lease

Subject to the whims of those who police

Those with a platform and a mouth-piece

Steering narratives through a press release

Such is their masterpiece

Making their monstrosities approbative

All with a sneer and a jeer

Erasing innocents and natives, without a tear

Strategies and fallacies spread across the sphere

Atrocities touted as victories sincere

To please the puppeteer, the racketeer

Victims being told to bear and adhere

Yet they persevere with no fear

Their courage has no peer and that, we revere

Everywhere, those who speak get a spear

Remember, it's still better than a phosphorus sear

Let's keep watching this historical souvenir

3000 stolen futures under "liberation's" snare

Their blood staining our souls' veneer 

75 years of this genocidal premiere

The pillars on which this fucked society stands

Humans, control, wars and bloodied hands

The killing of the lands & deeds inhuman  

Oh the women looking for their freedom’s lumen

Battered, raped and killed by the insecure boogeymen

Let’s not forget the most colourful of our specimen

Who try as hard to just be, but cannot even

We’ve forced an image of what makes a man, 

And readily sacrificed the futures of our children 

There is no compassion in the basic curriculum

We’ve battered our selves & them glum, dumb and numb

All for the chase of control, status and income

All to maintain a broken & skewed system

We’ve perverted the use of our collective wisdom 

Succumbed to every flavor & crumb of violence

To stifle our own grandstand end, into silence

But there is no defiance, no other outcome… 

In legacy’s lens, than a big fat zero-sum 

And Death’s eternal, irrefutable hum