Helen Cottee
Systems are coming down
An extra... in honour of this evening.
Systems are coming down.
They won’t like it of course,
They’ll stamp their feet
Because they have been taught
To defend their Empire.
They think they’re
doing the right thing,
That even their hate and violence
Are divine.
And so we are invited
To turn the other cheek.
To not respond with more hate
Or more violence,
But with grief
And enough peace
to keep still
As their Empire falls.
And then after,
to wade into the debris
Moving bricks and bodies
Caught in the crumble
Until we can start loving
And thus create something new.
