Neutrality Insults Our Humanity

These calls for neutrality

In the face of assault

Are an insult to us all

How dare you keep saying

Calm down

You're over-reacting

When your life too

Is in peril

Silencing us

To uphold the status quo

Won't make you

Any less dead

When it is your turn

To be the object of hate

Anger has a place

Its vilification

No more than a distraction

From the terrors inflicted

Upon all of us

For the benefit of the few

If you are not raging

As much as I wish

It didn't befall me to tell you

You may have lost your heart

Sacrificed to the gods of war

Who are no gods at all

But violent men hell-bent

On maintaining their superiority

Whatever the price

Ordinary folk

Understand the idea

Of a cost too great to bear

Ironically it is our ethics

That leave us vulnerable

To attacks from those shouting morality

When we all know it's really depravity

Driving the agenda of death and destruction

When property has more value

Than human life

When financial contracts

Trump human rights

None but ourselves can save us

Silence will only enslave us

Speak up while you still can

Before cutting out tongues

Is sold as a necessary surgical intervention

Unless you wake up

You'll be queuing for the privilege

Of relinquishing your voice

I ask you again

If you are not righteous

In your indignation

Have you lost your mind

Or has it been captured

The price your heart-flow

Disconnecting you

From all that is

For no more

Than a bag of hot air