Vive La Révolution

When you see maddening injustice and a flood of sickening oppression,

And choose to shout out ‘’We’re human beings, dammit!’’ and struggle against it

You are my comrade!

When you see the exploitation of people, by putrid members of their own species

And choose to become a scourge against these fucking vultures,

You are my comrade!

When you see disunity amongst the ranks of the well-meaning few,

And want to unite them under one sweeping crimson banner in the winds of strife,

You are my comrade!

When you see corporate power and governments trample the weak,

And you choose to rip out their stenchful hearts into your bloodied hands,

You are my comrade!

When you see the people wallowing in a rancid pool of complacency and self-pity,

And wish to shake them out of their disgusting apathy and cowardly servitude,

You are my comrade!

When you see the voiceless billions, who writhe in suspended agony,

And wish to become the voice of the countless lives of quiet desperation,

You are my comrade!

Together, we become the revolution!

And then fingers, form a fist,

The rivers form an ocean,

And in this tumult of clichés

Of a united front of humanity…

We hear those ancient calls,

That propel us; that push us forward

Towards the doom of our times

Where the fate of this fragile blue planet

Hangs on a thread of human ingenuity and resolve

We make our stand here…