Take This Chain (2016)
By: Joelle Hibral
Tags: Poem, Activism, Anti Capitalist, Politics, Poetry

Take this CHAIN

Now

Dirty

Disgusting

Bloody fucking good for nothing chain linked to a buzzsaw cutting up the carcass of our broken dreams

Take it from me

This chain holds links worn down and then dressed up by cowardly few

Who thirst and growl for money

They kill the shine and luster of a chain who once connected all of us

Now the links fall

piece by piece

Ideology separating the truth into pieces

A piece becoming a way of life

First

our history takes a fall

Becoming

His story of the murder genocide and famine fertilizing the skyscrapers

centers for mass deprivation

Built on the ashes of the books of the first nation philosophers

Ambushing the spirit of a generation growing to be amazing

500 years turned to a victory parade for a present left in dismay

Next falls society

Cooperation

Coopted for competition

The cooperative competition of merchants grown to corporations

Killers grown to presidents

Colonizers grown to bureaucrats

Cooperation: the key to a survival without authority wanders in the cracks of this link the cracks inherent in our power to break a machine hell bent on destroying us

Education

another link

crushing the spirit of creativity

Leaving plain buildings and illusions to spell the name of a makeshift surplus

The link is painted coarsely to conceal a life suffocated by lies

The prisons

another few links

The chains around our wrists twinkle in the eyes of a capitalist gone mad

Floating in the sky of law and order

The chains drip blood, tears

And vibrate with killer intensity

The factories

Another link moving constantly

Never ceasing

The money flows

And bones crunch through the gears of a cannibalistic machine

The link which you find yourself emulated in

The first world

Ripped from the chain by the capitalists and put in a case for us all to see.

You sit in this first world and have a second to say things are ok

When there is someone in this world right now who can’t help but spend a single second saying things are not ok

When somewhere on this planet there is someone who can’t even breath

Who every second can only imagine the sunshine

How?

How can you take another breath?

you’re so selfish

Not guilty

But absurdly inept

Inspire

Inspire yourself to give a fuck

We are not responsible for this mess but we are responsible for not being responsible

This link double sided as the rest hides the suffering behind society’s spectacle

Right now!

Oh my fucking god

Right now!

There is somebody begging for the pain to stop

Screaming for mercy!

Will it ever come? Can it come?

It will come from us?

It will come from us not accepting?

Not just looking at the 1st world link in the chain which lies

The other links more so in a state of pure nauseating power

Are only seen in separation

Take this chain in total

Feel its bumps

Cry in its elegies

Bleed from its jagged edges

Another tear falls from my left eye It tastes like salt and delight

Why do I love this feeling!?

To suffer and cry

Why does it feel so good?

Why can I make love to this feeling?

My pants are literally wet with cum

I rise with every metaphor and every hit to the back of my head

I love this soo much

I can’t be anything except a volcano erupting into the old world

Transforming burning magma into lava shooting the intensity of a vengence unforgotten

Colliding

And collapsing

All the evil into its bubbling exuberant red glow

Magmanamous

A foundation for elation

I cannot stop

I will not rest in chains

The old world will crumble

I am a demon giving rise to insurrectionary drama

To kick off the final spectacle for the denial of the spectacle

History repeats itself

This time a comedy

Lets laugh at the relics of the world old

And the world new

the funnest of them all

Life for the sake of living

Loving because it feels good

The world for you and for us