Here’s the road to travel to pave a peaceful way
It’s a long dark and quiet and no-one lives but one day
There’s that obscure light ahead why don’t you turn around
Legend says it’s the tycoon coming with a lynch and silver crown
Where’s a sign of civilization to save you from their dues
They’ve bought that place too and come again to conquer you
Everywhere is fire bombs and cars toppled on their side
Empty houses with no doors echoing historic cries
When was the last time any man lie within without blood
The answer lies solely within the rich man who lives on
It is they who buy your souls as long as they can buy anything
But it is we who have a life who we feel is worth living
This is the mayhem uprising, by the men behind closed doors
Our suffering is only profit and they are only getting more
As we seat ourselves blindly in the unpaved ignored streets
The tycoon keeps running at you but you cower on your knees
Yes I do feel a mayhem uprising but it isn’t within our hearts
The mayhem is safely in their wallets where it’s been from the very start
A contest entry
- Speak out! by Luna Argintie.
930 points, ended September 9, 2008, 205 entries
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Comments
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Well done
There will be a new way and new ideas that save us at the last minute. The light at the end of the tunnel.
I liked this.


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thanks!
Thanks for comment, I appreciate it
And perhaps there will be a solution, but it wouldn't last long, as human nature can never be substituted with 100% reasoning and idealism. Our nature will always control, and thats just the way it is.
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