Reasons to feel loved they screamed at us through their microphones
Their podiums weren’t high enough to reach our ears though
And the bulletins of a thousand dead did not match up to the lies of the holy one
But we resented the fact, the change in momentum
Adamant that we could make a difference, we lived life each day as if it were the penultimate
Everyone survived for a few weeks, everything was going smoothly

Until the accident that proclaimed him a symbol of being, the reason to live
Until life changed our lives, the outlooks of a thousand became the view of the one
And anything that happened was of a reason, made to be, forced to exist
There were the marionettes who took it upon themselves to crusade the world
Their bayonets up their arses and in the throats of others
Demands to be safe and live healthily arose, reasons to feel safe, sane and loved sprouted
And they surrounded the towns, villages and slums of the lives of us all
And pointed mirrors when fingers were launched in their direction
To change the world is an impossible task
Not even Atlas himself could cover all the bases
The centre of the world, an abyss of corruption and deceit
Commands the legions of a thousand symbiotic nations of allegiance
Rock upon rock upon thrashed body they rose
Conquering all, becoming nothing, subjugating all beneath them

Then came a withering, deviant soul, and said:
What’s going on here, ey?
The last of the last of the resistance crumbled and crushed beneath the boots of the crown

Jaryd Stapleton

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-awe-of-opposing-forces-crushed/