All Winters End

Justice may be blind

But rest assured she knows your face

Every cowardly contour

As you mask your cruelty behind the law

Beyond the powered halls

And powdered wigs of men with slaves

Men like war wait in the wings

To swallow your entire being

Vengeance be thy final plague

For those consciences gone cold

For those shadows left to cast

Gallows you have built yourselves

Truth will flow from open mouths

Torrential instead of meted out

Melting pot made boiling now

Know that verdict is coming down

No craven act will pass away

From the memory before these graves

And there are no bones that will forgive

The symbols you are drawing here

Allusions but not illusory

These graven images portrayed

Portents of generational betrayal

Treason worn red on every head

Fascism draped by Betsy Ross

A refrain of stars with stripes for some

Built on scarred backs that bleed the same

Kept beneath Liberty's sons

All too familiar displays

For those already underfoot

Yet you'd use your tongue to shine the boot

Aimed squarely toward your neck

Winding back wheels to seek a fiction

To find utopia in ages past

Rewinding progress despite friction

No matter who is in your path

And when at last blind Justice meets you

And on your heels you run away

And on your knees you plea before her

Remember that she knows your face

Fuck Ice (All Winters End)

Photo by Francesco Ungaro: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-with-wings-statue-grayscale-photo-96127/