If We Would Have Loved II

We love the power and we love the people with a greedy love

If the power we love doesn’t love the people with a listening love

If the people will rise up because of what we’ve done

If the people will rise up despite what we’ve done

If the people will rise up because the people will rise up to save themselves

Harness grieving fury into a million filthy punching fists to reclaim all justice ever missed

Turn the talons of the masses on ourselves if we have driven breakneck desperation

The power must fear the people

The power must love to fear the people

The power must love the people

For the people would have loved their power

We are the power

We are the people

And people are the power over the people

And the people are the power over the land

And the land is the power over all people

We love the people and we love the land with an impatient love

If the people we love haven’t loved the land with a listening love

If the land will rise up because of what we’ve done

If the land will rise up despite what we’ve done

If the land will rise up because the land will rise up to cleanse itself

Roar, you sickened seas, summon dead stampedes of all creatures that were ever wasted

Snake, you sleeping vines, and strangle violent humankind into wild repentance

The people must fear the land

The people must love to fear the land

The people must love the land

For the land could still love its people

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