Citizen!    Whence came your voice    your right to speak?    Is there a purpose to your tongue    and gnawing teeth?    I ask thee;    How deep and hollow    is your mouth?    What lie is too decayed    for you to stomach?       With humility and obedience    you pride yourself    Evasive and lukewarm    until the end       Citizen!    The interdependent morality    of your collective    made too soft the bed    in which you lie    I ask Thee;    Do you acknowledge    your own fragility    when you sleep    to serve the "Greater Good"       United in fear    Lives "hard to bear"    Illusions that "we are all peers"       I preach not for understanding    In you I have no faith    I spit at you my truth;    that you are the burden of my heritage       For herein lies the irony    There is neither room    nor air    for the wakeful fire    in your precious world    of equality       Citizen!    You are truly faithful    to tradition    when you crucify    those whose voices burn    Alas    a hundred years from now    you recite and corrupt    their epitaphs    to crucify another