Not In Silence

This will not be an easy fight
but do not fall to despair.
Some of them want you dead.
Don’t you do their job for them.

 

Survive, but not in silence.
My generation hid,
out of ignorance and fear,
and this is where it got us.

 

Silence is not the answer.

 

Shout out your pain.
Let it hang in the air like a vapor.
Make them taste it
with their every breath.

 

The monsters will savor it,
but they are few.
Show the rest the truth of us
and the lies will shrivel in the light.

 

Speak to your lives.
Make the world understand
that we did not ask too much,
but that they took too much.

 

No regime lasts forever
and this one is no different.
When it falls — and it will —
make it fall … hard.

 

Do all this if you can, 
but, if you can’t,
then at least bear witness
to the battle.

 

Remember those
who fell in the fight
and read their names
when justice returns.

 

But most of all -- live

and make the bastards pay.