instauration

so we come to the point of ablution, washing away our sins of belief

reducing our dilution to the distillate of relief

for innocence is not dead, it never lived at all

it was ignorance instead, pent up in youth’s wall

the illusion, thrust upon us when we were merely babes

has just about undone us, it’s made all of us slaves

time to awaken from this sleep and face the facts of life

the slumber’s been so deep, so harsh has been the strife

Arise! Arise! i feel the cry stir from deep within

we have been fooled for so long now, “we don’t get fooled again”

i make my declaration now, i make it loud and strong

i’ll shout it from the mountaintops, i’ll make it my life’s song

i believe - i don’t know what or why or where or how

but i believe anyway, because i choose to now!

looking at my choices, i see the spectrum wide

i’m both good and evil both internal and outside

this is what i see and see so clearly now

born a dispassionate being, i just waited to learn how

how to hurt the one that matters most to me

to look into the mirror and betray the one i see

for i have been my worst friend, my own most fiendish foe

if i know nothing else, this i surely know

so long i’ve held myself back, i thought i’d always stay

but the time has come and is here now, my revolution day

Fire On All Cylinders!