One minute,
a close call ...
almost anything.
all...
at the
instant of
absurd!
In convenience
of tragedy,
abuse...!
It doesn't fit the clock
deregulate time.
facts, the
truths of life ...
Nor invent
circumstances
that reason does not
stop him ...
But hinder
hopes,
time does not fit nor
undo what has already been done
in the mechanism
infinite...
from another
way
it's loss
of time,
waste,...!
I declare today
That my body is my body.
No government entity, private citizen,
Or business public or private
Has any rights
Or permission to use,
Abuse,
Regulate,
Deregulate,
Confiscate
Obliterate,
My body.
Law makers and religious shakers
I petition no takers.
My appendages are mine
I choose their destiny
I choose their function
Their purpose
I choose.
I enter no contract
I obay no edict
My flesh is mine
I enter in consensual unions
Without compromise
Without permission
From the state
From the clergy
From any finger pointer or tongue wager.
I declare today
From a starting point of now
Until my end
That my body is my body
I will defend my flesh
My growth
My every carbon
From those who wish to dominate
Regulate
Seek to enlist the state
I am not a part of any collective thought
Nor am I unionized by fear
That wilfully drives to steer
Anything that can be bought
By sanction, or divinity, or code.
I declare today, all days
That my body is not yours
No one shall limit
My abuse or use or purpose
I will not obey
I so declare today.
As the masses self-segregate,
methods of control congregate
with notions to deregulate
until their coffers consolidate.
Such manipulations make tougher
our right to build a peaceful buffer
from creeds of greed; lives suffer
as light gets crushed in the snuffer.
The breeze they shall seize
will strike us to our knees
no matter who disagrees
with their squeeze of decrees.
Yet, the tremor of their hand
proves their power isn't grand,
even if they demand command
mighty brands shall drift like sand
as billions of souls awaken
to the will-force they've taken
by arguments mistaken
from pyramids now shaken.
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