#29

Alienation follows interpretation of questions
through a prejudiced lens
but you can't placate your conscience
and instil selfish concessions
that serve your enemies' ends.
No barriers sprung from hatred's shallow foundations
can endure
A determination to deliver ourselves,
our brothers, our sisters -
beyond cancers of colour and tongue.
so you might still blame Thatcher,
and you might easily blame your neighbour
but as our stricken leaders clamour
choleric, and clamber from our pockets
-choose carefully your loyalty
Parasites' chorus in hysterics
in suited ranks of Sirens, chastised
cannot temper Brutus's reflex;
Many hands at the tumbril,
many more to the blade.
Cast in tint of victory now-
resolve to interpret the world, for what it is,
and better still, for what it could be;
- Awaiting 'cross the barricade.