Victims Of Progress

from Hardly A Dream by Flower

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WE BEG FOR DELIVERANCE FROM A BIGOTS BELIEF.
WE BEG FOR LOVE NOT ENCRUSTED IN GRIEF.
WE BEG FOR A LIFE NOT DICTATED BY HIS.
WE BEG FOR A HEREAFTER NOT DAMNED BY SIN.
WE ACCEPT A SETTLEMENT OF MERE SURVIVAL.
WE ACCEPT A DELUSION OF A SINCERE STRUGGLE.
WE ACCEPT A COMMAND TO GIVE THEM THANKS.
WE ACCEPT AN HONOR TO BE AMONG THEIR RANKS.
WE BEG FOR A LITTLE PIECE OF A WORLD THAT WE ABHOR.
WE BEG FOR A PLACE WITHIN THEIR SOCIAL ORDER.
WE BEG FOR ANYTHING TO MAKE US FEEL VALUED.
WE BEG FOR A SHRED OF THEIR STOLEN POWER.

WE ACCEPT A FUTURE OF ENDLESS RESTRAINTS.
WE ACCEPT THE RULES OF THEIR SOCIAL STRATA.
WE ACCEPT THEIR LAW, BECAUSE WE LIVE IN FEAR.
WE ACCEPT THEIR WORLD BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY HERE.

TRUDGING FORWARD, IN A FUTILE PROCESSION OF FATE.
CONVICTED TO SERVE, WHILE FORGETTING WHO HOLDS THE REINS.
WISHING FOR MORE
SETTLING FOR LESS,
WHAT CHOICE DO THEY GIVE US BUT TO ACCEPT
? THE DYING ASSIMILATE, THE DESPAIRING FEEL ONLY PRIMAL URGE,
TO SLIDE INTO THE SYSTEM- COGS TURNING AS THEY SHOULD.
FORCE-FED THEIR JUSTICE,
A JUDGE IN OUR OWN MINDS.
PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER, LACK OF REFLECTION LEAVES US BLIND.
THIS IS HOW THEY MAINTAIN CONTROL.

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from Hardly A Dream, released December 26, 2022

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