Rise

Drinking from broken glass 

Living on hardened stones 

Ignited by the fascist fires 

Burning bodies, souls & bones 

Times they change yet stay the same 

Oppressor & oppressed 

A debt that shall be paid with interest 

Breaking the King’s chest 

Mother, I’ll be late for dinner 

Will just chew on broken thorns 

Drinking the ocean’s blackened blue 

The journey to get home is home 

Surrender is the actual death 

To the already dead, hate is lust 

A martyr’s end & a rebel’s beginning 

The war for the just 

Rise across the land 

Forever & beyond 

Break the chains of prejudice 

And fight till the break of dawn 

A new world we shall create 

Far removed from this hate 

Empty slogans that don’t rejuvenate 

& are just a coward’s bait 

Look at the new horizon 

Smell the revolution 

Flags of singular colors  

Whether saffron or green 

Crumbling to the Constitution 

Clenched fists against the tyranny 

Rising with a finger raised 

A child’s future, a woman’s thoughts 

All dreams bright and ablaze