Stars and bars lurk behind the eyes of daydreaming secessionists
Enticing futures dancing around heads like halos
Iron and blood tools to govern the stubborn
Loving mothers decrying the cause and call to arms
And buccaneer politicians with hidden visions
Intertwining administration and religion
Seducing with false hope, gem-studded promises and lies
Getting high off dollars signs
Greedy sparkling eyes gaze on infinite possibilities
Truths arise from the shrouded depths of yore
As cataclysmic scenes of gore supplant blissful ignorance
And biblical lore comes to the forefront of possibility
on the verge of realization
But fragmented factions are all talk and no action
Apocalypse waiting to happen
Fatalist conclusions and blood-enforced collusion
Democracy flowing bright red from the barrel of a howitzer
Benevolent intervention of international terrorists
siding with fanatic nationalists
Greed consuming, imams abusing, commoners losing
Hope for the alternative to a bleeding life of strife.
8 April 2004