Citizen! Citizen, Do You See?

By: Gus Victoria

Citizen! Citizen, do you see?

The Government you voted in,

The men who stand for you,

Sit idly as you suffer,

Sign away your rights,

And fatten their purse

With all your coin.

Citizen! Citizen, do you know?

That all who fought before

Knew more freedom than you,

Had more rights to defend

Against all foes imaginary and real,

Against tyranny

And for despotism,

Citizen! Citizen, you have been betrayed!

All that voted

All who abstained,

Betrayed just the same,

Those in power

Make your children destitute,

While in patriotism they deliver

The death warrant of the Dream,

Across seas and across time,

They linger in shadows,

They watch and they plot,

They deliver death from a distance

And crown themselves Defender,

They murder and steal

And clothe in righteousness their crimes,

Citizen! Citizen, do you not see?

You are no longer free.

House Unbuilt

By: Gus Victoria

There is a window

In a house yet unbuilt

That opens to a view

Of a landscape familiar,

If the key could be found.

I walk the house in my dreams,

Searching, ever searching,

For the iron-wrought key

Lost before the house was built,

Unknown and forgotten,

Until that window was discovered,

Behind the frames are cobwebs,

Covering the shelves is dust,

On the walls are memories,

Like the paint

They peel away, dry and empty,

Leaving bare walls

Of aberrant beauty

Where once they hailed

A life now gone,

That window opens to a new sunrise,

Over known ground,

But it remains closed,

Always closed,

Unless the key is found,

Hidden away

In a place unknown,

Hidden away in another dream,

Come now lover,

Come now to this house,

Help me search,

Is the key with you?