The Broken Valkyrie
"The Broken Valkyrie"
when
the artificial
sun
replaced
true Light,
revolution
was a forgotten
Valkyrie,
Liberty
had been
put to bed
broken whore
of Babylon
no longer holding
the torch for anyone;
women and men
grew to love
their servitude,
complacency
skewered their fever,
it, like a contagion spread
a worldly blanket over all,
viral dreams of revolution
ceased;
nothing bloomed
under that
artificial sun,
the colour grey
grew scales
over the fake blue
eggshell sky,
underneath we
trudged along
no longer living
just existing,
luke warm
lapdog conditions
became the norm
every day,
the lizards
monitored
our circadian
rhythms,
we took our
RAT tests and
medicine like
obedient children
being reverently
administered
some strange
new religion
We
no longer stood
together, we followed
each other not leading
shuffling in sad
do as you are told
don’t break the rules
rock the boat lines,
we walked over
anything different
with large avoidance
gingerly piecing
our bland mosaic lives
together with the
the clag they provided us,
but somehow subconsciously
we just knew it didn’t stick,
but we didn't say or do anything;
we looked in the mirrors
with horror unnaturally subsiding
each day,
to understand
bit by bit
we were being ridden,
we had become
uniformed
and un-unique
sad beasts,
we hung
like stale macrame
hypnotised to our
conditioned walls of freedom
we never left
our corners
anymore
to walk
tightrope
some say
in quiet unrest
they still dream -
we pity them now,
those uneasy
somnambulists
we are told
to ignore them,
for they are
perilous contiguous
lepers strapping
free will like swords
to their borderlines,
states of recalcitrance
to be avoided at all costs,
whispering their
vehemence like
contained eruptions -
to contract their
mindset is a
certain death
just like a
close contact
virus
we understand
"Now"
though -
Now,
we are all
as one
hive mind
united
blessed be
for peace, and
our hard earned
sanity -
any talk of
what we once
thought was
revolution,
is a dream,
in truth they
teach us,
it is a ridiculous
concept, an
amusing myth
there is no more
worshipping
censored whores
wearing thorny crowns
of liberty
there is no more
worshipping
intangible things
of stupid
serendipity
nor words
in books
that are forbidden
that must never
again be read
they have all been burned
or hidden
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
"RunWayAway"/Thom Yorke
https://youtu.be/jwN4ZZxBYi4
“Most men and women
will grow up
to love
their servitude
and will never
dream of revolution.”
"In “Brave New World, Huxley writes that, in the end, people ‘will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘make us your slaves but feed us’. In this society and in ours, people are comfortable handing over freedom to people in power in exchange for safety and stability. In this exchange, people learn to love their servitude, choosing it over any dreams of revolution”.
Artificial Sun
https://www.space.com/china-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun
RAT Test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_antigen_test
Communism -v- Fascism
https://www.diffen.com/difference/Communism_vs_Fascism
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: A Cautionary Tale of Totalitarian Ideology", Shane Hossain
https://minnesotaenglishjournalonline.org/2020/05/05/aldous-huxleys-brave-new-world-a-cautionary-tale-of-totalitarian-ideology-by-shahin-hossain/
"Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, eBook
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworld/huxleya-bravenewworld-00-h.html
LYRICS/"RunWayAway", Thom Yorke
https://genius.com/Thom-yorke-runwayaway-lyrics
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