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in violence we trust

from departure by dana sterling

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Long night drives
Divided by tear gas and red lights
A slight chill
A vibrance magnified by silence
And glancing from the window
Flames engulf a silhouette
I once knew
Now it’s different
Now it’s not you
Where does this go?
How far from home
Can this vehicle take me?
And when will I know that it’s over?
When will I know what’s been taken
Is cooled and snowed
With an acid blanket of destruction

Solid torture
From the front lines
Masked by
Long farewells
The lies we all believed
The promises that we
Failed to receive
Could they blame me?

Break Speed chasm flying like dawn
Down a bridge beat to bursting
Surfing on the clouds beneath us
Like it might be thick enough in this hazy state
Not to drop us
When the sightless seek
The last chance to find this lost land
Long after we’ve forgotten
It’s easy to say what you would do to stop this
When progress doesn’t feel like
Your responsibility

Could they blame
The shadows left behind
Everytime a mouth muttered
“I don’t mind”

But now
But now I

Bet you do

Drinking up dusk
While we’re breathing in blood
In this violence we trust
In this violence we trust
Awareness alone
Will never be enough
We’re alive, we’re alive
We’re not made out of rust
Make this paradigm cut
In this violence we trust
Let their throats open up
No we’re not made of rust
In this occupied place
We displace, separate
Burn it all down
There’s nothing to reclaim

We’re not
Made of Rust

We’re not
Made of rust

I could say sorry, all that I want
But the more I deny
The more that I sin
They said don’t trust the government
But I never thought it would end like this
Being used and split
Empty hearts rise up and awaken
To whole families taken
We dig through the ash to find nothing
But bones and casings
Division does nothing but enforce class lines
Indulge the wicked
We stay restricted
And for what?
Reject their oppressive fiction

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from departure, released August 21, 2022

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