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

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