Like Smoke into Fog - Dawn Ray'd

So an ode to the reformists

That moralize peace and civility

You untouched by the violence

Blind to mighty march of flames

To the officers that didn’t pull the trigger

Yet find the guilt uncomfortable

Tear off and burn that uniform

Or become equally culpable

As one candle gutters and dies

As it exhales smoke for the very last time

A thousand flames ignite from this

Every cinder builds the furnace

From the bailiffs to the judges

On which capitalism depends

Quickly the day comes thundering

When we will seek revenge

Set fire to the courthouse

And its ledgers

Burn their deportation orders!

And save accelerant for the devils

That enforce the borders

A bullet for the homophobic priests;

Glibly they allot us status

Our longing for acceptance

Is weaponized against us

You’ll never get your filthy hands

All soaked in tears and years of blood

On the one thing we would die without

How dare you target love

As one candle gutters and dies

As it exhales smoke for the very last time

A thousand flames ignite from this

Every cinder build the furnace