Act of Reason

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Anonymous

Multiple image board users
Internet hackitvist wikis
Digital stand alone complex
All of them looking like Guy Fawkes


We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us


Proteus effected tactics
Greyhated attacks like black fax
Businesses cannot get near them
Governments globally fear them

 

Death Daguerreotypes


Shot with love and not macabre
Mostly babies, propped up kids
Leaned on stands to pose with family
Life and death in black and white


Snapped post-mortem, they must have been sad to take
Tastes Victorian now seem so odd to us
Often they were taken many days later
Often, sadly, that was their only photo

  

Ornament Me

I found there, no candy cane
I found there, no shiny tinsel
I found there, no popcorn strings
I found there, no topper angel


Like a pine removed from its winter
Like a present before it was purchased
Like a sleigh bell sounding in its sleigh
I’m to you an older holiday

 

History Lessens Risk


To know things makes one dangerous
The politicians fear
The wise might someday know too much
The hows of yesteryear


To see through well-tried strategies
And know how nations fell
Lends one insights to their ploys
And keys to make them fail


This is why their histories are
Written by attorneys
Keep the truth from them so far
It buries them in earnest


Here’s a secret, take them down
They’re no use to you as long as they’re around

 

When You Said That


I never saw it coming, a day like this
I knew it was on the horizon, but dusk had not come
I swear I was at a loss, for words and expressions
I never saw it coming, a day like this


You were so very cool
But you were so very cruel

 

Mytacism


Amother may amother might
Mix the maybes up in mind
Mask a may more for a might
Muse a minor made mistake


Grammar, grammar, grammar
Messed up, mistake morphemic
Master, master, master
Elementary fundaments
Muzzle, muzzle, muzzle
Moppet, misused mother tongue
Pamper, pamper, pamper
Maybes, mights, and accidence
Smother, smother, smother
More tagmemic accidents

 

Promise


What is this I hear?
What is this I fear?
Breaking up with me
But you’re a part of me


I’ve held you long beside me
I’ve looked down on my right
I’ve held you in my arms


What is this I hear?
What is this I fear?
Breaking up with me
But you’re a part of me


I’ve held you long beside me
I’ve looked down on my right
I’ve held you in my hands
I’ve held you long beside me
I’ve held you in my hands
I’ve walked you arm in arm


What is this I hear?
What is this I fear?
Breaking up with me
But you’re a part of me


I’ve held you long beside me
I’ve held you in my hands
I’ve held you in my arms
I’ve held you long beside me
I’ve held you in my arms
I’ve loved you in my arms

 

Last Ember


Night fire, so warm
Night fire, so bright
Night fire, red glow
Night fire, let go


Thoughts turn now inward
Burning embers
Things get so quiet
Glowing, crackling
Now deeper thinking
Takes us near the end

 

Ballast
(instrumental) 

 

Debt


Better bills they come
For all the things I’ve done
Never mind what’s said
Written between the lines I’ve read


I saved something today
I gave nothing away


Better bills they come
For all the things I’ve done
Pay back now they say
All your debts will go away
Modern slavery
Cannot get away

 

Crisis Rumors


When governments fail
And riots ensue
When leaders fall
And markets lose
When all seems lost
And structures crack
When hope is tossed
And faith is sacked


Hold on
Remain
With grip-tight hands
You’ll remain the same