Irons

Bound to destruction here we exist
 Too comfortable, too numb, too weak to resist
 In our quest for knowledge we came to insanity
 Killing the earth for power and vanity

 Murder came to us along the way
 We questioned not those to blame
 Very clean he looked, yet grim
 Seven bloodhounds followed him

 Fat from the life-source of their prey
 Murder fed them day by day
 One by one, and two by two
 He tossed them human hearts to chew

 Next came Fraud, with his false smile
 All were fooled by his tactful guile
 We nurtured his existence accepted deceit
 His clever mind wove our defeat

 And the children, too innocent to know
 Round his feet played to and fro
 We showed little care, there was no alarm
 Turned our backs and let them starve

 Clothed with the bible, as with light
 And in the shadows of the night
 Like a serpent, next, Hypocrisy
 The age old creed of the so called free

 And many more destructions played
 In this ghastly masquerade
 Their vile qualities in clever disguise
 All respectable to common eyes

 Last came the cowardly leaders of the state
 Before their thrones we lay
 Those leaders bred a ghastly birth
 And laid dead all life upon the earth

 Hope lurked within this darkening hell
 But for those who listened death befell
 Still She called for all to hear
 In hope that truth would overcome fear

 Rise like lions after slumber
 In unvanquishable number
 Shake your chains to earth like dew
 Which in sleep had befallen you
’Ye are many ---- they are few.‘

What is freedom? ---- ye can tell
 That which slavery is too well----
 For its very name has grown
 To an echo of your own.

 It is to work and have such pay
 As just keeps life from day to day
 In your limbs as in a cell
 For the tyrants use to dwell

 So that you for them are made
 Loom, and plow, and sword, and spade,
 With or without your own will bent
 To their defense and nourishment.