After All These Years

After all these years
rebel yell
that call to arms
that chemical smell
of teenage tears
invisible
indivisible
from all that we detest

so many years spent
in mad and utter unrest
acting out in fanatical
jest

We pumped fists
we shaved heads
we jumped in and out of everyone's beds
fighting conformity
normality
schnormality
that crushing cruelty
of monotony

Against the flow, against the grain
we were the tide
to bring the change

then watched it die
in our mother's veins
fixing everyone
with chains

Rebel Yell
me thinks this place doth smell
of rot
and things it should not
of suffocating shells
of off-shore wells
needlessly bored
for fun

.

de Veres dotted the lines
so I'll cross the T's

for every funeral
another sleave...

weavers weave
but when someone first practices to deceive
we just as merrily unweave



Exe
07/29/2023

© Raena Exe 2023

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