Barn Burners

All the world is burning Seething in its juice The odds of hate and the odds of fear Have set the nations to fueling fires And paranoia fills the awkward smiles Of my neighbours precarious eyes Self defence becomes the enemy Strangling us in our sleep And danger screeching the early warnings Gnawing our finger tips This visceral life of protection Defence and cognitive dissonance And how humanity has been weakened By machinations plans for ignorance Who are we What were we And what have we become To the tunes of liberation We marched ourselves to mediocrity Into a predetermined history And a dead-end destination Proof and accusations never pass the censors While our homes are set ablaze No-one catches the lucrative affordable barn burners As they slink towards their next psychotic phase We could have forged something beautiful Something clear and strong and truthful And long after we have gone And the memories begin to fade It will be our children who have to live with The future the barn burners have merrily made