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Revolution

by Brian Francis

You enslaved a world and called it empire.

While the sluts and bastards,

you worshipped as kings and queens,

toyed with the peoples of other lands.

Bleeding them dry and beating them down,

stealing generation after generation

from the emerald isle,

to feed your war machine;

starving a nation into submission.

But, never did they submit

Instead they fought you in your own streets,

defeating you in your own game.

After, three hundred, years of torture

they stand free and proud with a future bright;

while you cluster in the tea rooms

still playing at the game of empire,

though you have nothing now, but memories.

 

Piece by piece, you were driven out,

Losing your precious hold on America;

seeing traitors, in the heroes of revolution.

Piss on George! Piss on his memory!

The tainted inbred bloodline

to hell with the lot.

To hell I say!

 

Terrence MacSwiney won his battle,

even though it cost his life.

Brixton was watched by the world,

as one man used honor as a tool

to defeat his captors, and win against all odds;

Enduring The Most for his Principles Of Freedom.

The empire is gone, though pride might remain,

it is a stagnant cesspool in your soul.

Just a distant dream of what once was,

as you wriggle in the death throws of independence.

Joining with the other nations of yesterday

in a vain attempt at staving off tomorrow.

The “union” dragging you down into it’s own mire.

We have won you are defeated.

We are free.

01/03/2004

Posted on 01/03/2004
Copyright © 2024 Brian Francis

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 01/04/04 at 12:56 AM

An unexpected and eye opening journey back in time Brian to the days when imperialism was the norm. I like the fact that in-between the lines of this piece a new and more humane order (though not perfect, is any system?) took root and rose to conquer the world in a much gentler and kinder way, and survives to this day by adapting and continually reinventing itself for better.

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