Drowning in Hours

Drowning in Hours

Maybe in the darkness

You can touch the textures

The stains on the uniforms unfolding

And without eyes see truer colors

See so-called heroes wait like fools

Drowning in hours

That none of them will now ever enjoy

What fucking cowards

Asleep beneath the bloodied girls and boys

See the vanishing façade

Shields off and masks shattered

Twisted and grotesque

Worthy of worse and yet still

Not yet afraid of our contempt

Praying that they may yet face the dead

An embarrassment of riches

That this life you lead still stretches

Filled with honor and celebrations

Undue authority

The undulations of boot-lickers

The shadow of midnight falls

Emblazoning these silhouettes against the wall

Like atomic ghosts torn asunder by bombs

No longer privileged to be haunting these halls

A reminder of just how pitiful all of you are

We cannot learn to lessen this pain

Cannot hallow, cannot consecrate

Until we learn the lessons which remain

Revoke the unearned worship we once gave

Melt down false idols, forsake the blade

It envelopes them now

Cold hard slab, thirsty ground

Earth below a home no longer

Blood swallowed up by violent hunger

Now is born a righteous thunder

Like hissing snakes with scales you hide

Badges built on bullshit lies

While you wait the fires rise

The innocent lay down their lives

Cut. Torn. Ripped. Killed. Brutalized.

Such obscene features

Vulgar creatures

Pigs would be a sentence light

Vile, sickos, lying, wicked,

Monstrously incompetent

Such obtuse failures

Fraudulent saviors

Boys in blue with flags of white

Useless, gutless, worthless pricks

Couldn't even make a damned attempt

Events illuminating a fundamental truth

A thin blue line of fascist fools

Tools of a system obsolete

Dead inside

Sickening

Children's graves littered with flowers

Futures never to be fulfilled

You have revealed your secret powers

Leaving destinies cut short in seconds

You really are all bastards in the end

Cowards

Drowning in hours

That you could have tried to save

Now in the light at last we see

True colors and a reckoning

No more sanctimony

Empty mantras

Undeserved respect

If you let them all just die like that

Who the fuck do you serve and protect?