Abstain

 

To abstain is to do nothing but sit on the fence,

a cowardly position to take in the face of adversity.

Massacre and the slaughter of the innocents takes place,

and we hear the words 'we abstain'.

This fuels the cry for justice to be done,

as the nations of the world demand such action.

The day of reckoning is not far from us,

as the dead speak to us from their early graves.

Little children denied a life cry and we still hear them.

They have gone as have their homes and loved ones too,

And we abstain.

We sit on the fence with the cowards afraid to act,

for this we shall be remembered and condemned.

Abstain in the face of such injustice and slaughter,

means that we don't care about what is taking place.

Abstain gives the green light to arms dealers to ply their trade,

and fill their coffers with the money of shame, stained with blood.

Abstain.

Once we had a bulldog as the emblem of our nation,

a dog with grim determination in the face of adversity,

Now replaced with a poodle, a lap dog which troops along

after the the greatest and most corruption nation in the world..

The Free World, the land of the Free,

well fuck me.

Abstain?