In the Spirit of Revolt

-------In the Spirit of Revolt-------

The Judge proclaims that there are lessons to be learned,

and his church of weary defenders, complacent

in the dim hope of tradition and Authority's promise, believe every word.

Doctrine, again, and dogmas,

held above the moral progress

of intuition with reason.

A trial has taken an expected course,

and actions again express the belief they are made from.

If it were justice we would speak honestly, but out of fear we do not.

Integrity is realized through one's moral consistency 

to do as they say; it is trust, 

and where it is not souls rise in protest.

The Law will be respected if and only when it and its officers do their job, as they say it - 

to serve and protect the Masses - 

not keep them of the Liberty to do that for themselves.

Its gavel,

once a metaphor for the proclamation of justice being done,

today fills the room with despair again; a lonely, redundant noise;

of saving face rather than facing the change that needs to come.

But revolutions repeat, and that change is coming.

It is the Nature of the human spirit which tells me so.

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