Just Following Orders - Stockades

Just following orders, hold the line

They’re drawn in blood, hide behind

Shield eyes, badges covered, justice blind

Evictions violence;

the only crime

Enough force, securing, choking out

Bent knees, bowed heads, remain calm

Reaction compels breathless shout

Of freedoms threat;

police terror

Lose trust, coated weary clout

Propaganda’s perseverant psalm

They won´t excuse your reasoned doubt

Paid for with bodies that paid for arms

Sit staring drenched indirections flux

Together memories unfold

Futures seem present in the past

Insurmountable woes

A helpless plea becomes a rasp

Question ability to cope

Find a reality to grasp

Convolutions blinking hope

Stranded on the beaches of pollutions dead coastline, not celestial design

What might have been obscured by indifference wasn´t seen, still hides in plain

sight

What might have been obscured by omission wasn´t said, knotted throats leak

heavy sighs

Mandatory violence

Malevolent views

Mandatory silence

Powers abused

Trials we’re presented

Wars we all lose

Screaming for changes

Hierarchies removed

Drops in a river (Swim disillusion)

Tears in the rain (Drown in seclusion)

Waving a fan at a hurricane

Mapping the world, a journey escape where we

Freely reside, a nice place to share and to thrive