j'accuse...!

too many people have feigned support 

for this resistance or that 

when those fights were hot,

and the damned were giving it back 

only to withdraw

when the bridges broke 

and people got beaten back

to their dank flophouses

it is okay to leave 

many do 

but what our furious times have added

is disrespect

is indignation

there are many among us now

who, while keeping no stones unturned

to establish

that they are fighting the good fights

have added on to nasty structures,

have fed the vultures on.

beasts that pounce from fore

are easier to fight 

but they, who have

clouds & curtains of fake sympathy

to hide behind

while they advertise

smooth ways of life, aesthetic propriety 

and other endowments 

that capital brings –

hold control. hold power.

you know this.

you know them.

history is old.

there are have been way too many

tiny, tingling times

when you have reached out

and their gates haven’t budged

an inch

meanwhile,

these mad wars, 

of classes, races and sexes ,

have raged on, 

relentless.

as for the people 

who have always been fucked up

by these wars,

who aren’t you and me,

and who won’t be reading this rant,

they know who their real enemies are –

even among those

who feign empathy 

but will never build bridges with them

except those through which they can loot more.

they know, 

that their darkness isn’t the light

that shines on 

those crockery and cutlery 

their sounds aren’t the music

that fills 

those houses and cars.

as for us, 

conscientious objectors, 

who, 

despite all criminal inheritance

have chosen not to side

with those who fan these wars

it is more confusing.

our false learnings 

make us stick on

to false hopes 

such as, of finding solidarity,

even among those who masquerade too well

beware these enlightened do-gooders 

beware their trends & traits 

beware their spaces and times

they are with those they claim they fight 

they are with those you claim you fight

they are not your friends