"When resistance becomes necessary"
Sometimes I wonder
Why resistance becomes necessary
Despite the numerous wonders
Brought by today’s modernity
For behind the grandeur
Age old injustices occur
Making resistance possible
Even in this contemporary
Of course these may downplayed
Calling such actions as passe
That seeing mass actions, red banners swayed
Be deemed noise, disorder as one say
Fine! Yet how come mum in the injustices
Brought by the order and its oppressive practises
Will the oppressed remain silent
In this goddamn tragic play?
That by seeing contentment
Brought a generation full of indifferent
Choosing to live in isolation
Justified by redescribing as freedom
Yet chains remain shackled on them
Whether invisible or in shimmering silver
Still, shackled in a cycle of alienation
Of fear and countless desperation
And the order continuously exploit them
As in the past felt being goddamned
In a society where humanity’s physically alive
Yet souls barren and minds deprived
Is this freedom what today’s systems sought
The liberty that’s sold and brought?
Is this the promising future presented as something
When in fact an inglorious past that’s continuing?
It is not surprising that despite their criticisms
They find no alternatives to this activism
The culture of contentment brought by that modernity
Made one critic find it as “overdressed monkeys”
The silence and injustice must be provoked
By the multitude of noises invoked
As thoughts, words transform into flames
A reply to a systemic underserved reactions
Again, sometimes I wonder
Why resistance becomes necessary
Despite numerous wonders
Brought by today’s modernity
But the People doesn’t content
By this continuing depravity
Thus resistance is still possible
Even in this contemporary