1. FUNERARY RITES

With bowed head, neck exposed
Sleep deprived and starved
Shackled with lies
Driven by despair
Funerary rites
Inherited expense
Hardship obscures
Death seeping in
Get up on your knees, push on through the stench
Repeating: "it is what it is, as it should"
All subjugated
Truth obfuscated
Past arbitrary
Future obliterated