The dread Of what will come of this With fatal eyes Over a sinking world Staring through death We suffocate in open air Floods born of malign neglect Rising as we are still Reflections of resentment Of the silent and unflinching beings Once complicit It is known It is treason The wretched and spineless souls Dragged through misery Into the approaching darkness A void worthy of them Worthy of the unresigned Submit Chasm of fire encircled conceited hope They succumb not alone But with us dragged beneath Become the menial Become the servile Become the orphan and the abandoned Become the spectre of the righteous The sun will swallow the earth But only after it has choked before its time Long before its time