1. Malevolence Rising




Benumbing distraction
Merciless exhaustion
Pursued by a gloom
Whose pain I exhume

Damning fixation
Seethe with frustration

My acts self-defeating
Never receding
Slow suffocation
Self immolation
Fading memory
Loss of certainty
Internalised writhing
Malevolence Rising

Brooding with grief I curse and scream
At all the things that will not be
At all the things now left behind
Disbelief has left me blind

Blind




2. Detonation




Skating the thin ice of civility
Nursing the bigot insidiously
Perpetual mindset of emergency
Quietly stripping our humanity

Aberration....Condemnation....Rise

Compliance in silence....rise defiant

Polity whores-out our democracy
The death of salvation religiosity
Broken veneer masking society
Exposes our nature our hypocrisy

Aberration
Condemnation
Detonation




3. Requiem




Born into privilege
Bequeathed no allegiance
To notions of plutocracy

Whose sense of injustice
Intolerance to prejudice
Rose universal opportunity

Broke the back of old power
So cold and pernicious
Discrimination the enemy

With foresight and vision
Made evident what we could be
That society’s our responsibility

With strident conviction
Old barriers were torn down
Unapologetic equality

In the hands of Lingiari
Passed back to the Gurindji
Their lands and restored dignity

Equity
Identity
Legacy
Humanity

From malice to tolerance
Stagnation to progress
Ignorance to potentiality

Conceived new horizons
This old man indelible
Antiquity to modernity

You’ll live on in our memory…..




4. Siege Mentality




Spare me your rhetoric your hubris your hypocrisy
That preaches deliverance with hectoring paternality

Institute panic, sabotage accountability
Feign consternation, our siege mentality

Spare me your warnings, your fictitious catastrophes
That drown out perspective a chorus of incredulity
Spare me your indifference, your certainty, your morality
That reveals itself as an established oligarchy

Delegitimise me
Desensitise me
Traumatise me
Anaesthetise me..




5. Shackled to a Corpse




Embers of dying empire, crush humanity
Under the weight of old scores, pertinacious apathy
Echoes of promised valor born of shrapnel and barbed wire
No kiss of death is colder than this baptism of fire

Like a garrote round my neck
Like a skin I cannot shed
What’s left to me but madness
Amongst monuments to death

Devotion…….Shackled to a corpse
Sedation…….Shackled to a corpse
Conscription…….Shackled to a corpse
Damnation




6. Doctrine of Denial




Empires of dust and bone disavow reality
Manipulate the sobering truth and sheer brutality
Of a world gone mad that shed all semblance of humanity
Consequences absent from their ideology

The powerful keep an iron grip
Through their use of deceit and guile
And enamour us towards
Their simplistic doctrine of denial

Why won’t we see (x2)

Tragic implications
Of myopic lifestyles
That obfuscates who we could be
Will be no excuse
In the eyes of our children
Our destiny ignominy……go

Harness your power to be
Realise your power to be
Celebrate your power to be
Enforce your power to be

Enforce your power to be




7. None So Blind




Empty barrels
Vacuous morons
Dangerous hubris
Idiot Icons…….No

Heretic sophists
Ensure silence
Where willful blindness
Is foresight…..No

None so blind….Blind




8. Sewn Shut




Fleeing persecution
Sanctify our morality
Penal Institutions
Parsimonious our amnesty

Sewn shut our lips against mendacity
Sewn shut our eyes to this catastrophe

Perpetual retribution
Obscure cruelling legality
Writ of execution
Our satellites have reached apogee

Sewn shut our ears in callous apathy
Sewn shut bespeaks our inhumanity

Brutality Depravity Finality Calamity

Our obdurate refusal to call out this insanity
Breathes life tacit approval into this needless tragedy




9. Descent into Madness




Isolation, trepidation, walls close in around me
Siren songs of grief call forth my labyrinth……of loathing absurdity

Without warning, falling through the chasms in my mind
Bleeding anguish, drip-feeds my abyss……a 1000 years wide

Self-defeating
Guilt unceasing
Overpowering
All devouring

Rest never dwells
Hope never comes
Waves of silent screams
Never ending
My hell compels mourning….for all that could have been
And never was