rising proud and standing strong
the quest for justice is centuries long
we brand our bodies like graf-heads bomb walls
we tell our stories in colors and we celebrate our beauty with songs
i crossed paths today with a beautifully branded phoenix
traveling from afar and resonating with my matrix
we give from our souls as long as we can take it
we fake it so real we aren’t even faking
we pray for love and fight with rage
we arm rising divas to claim social space
the pendulum of revolution swings our way nowadays
we resist the rising terror of a proto-fascist gulag state
our bodies are canvasses as impermanent as our lives
but as long as we breathe the tattoos remain alive
deeply woven inside our minds
the ink we brand breeds nascent pride
telling stories and conveying meaning like madonna rules the stage
creating a potent antidote to the looming viper plague
we live to transcend the toxic baggage in our way
building the power to transform and bring about an anticapitalist age
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2017
