for millennia our species has lived on this earth
always molded by the conditions into which we were birthed
we have lived as hunter-gatherers, as serfs, and as slaves
we have paid homage to haughty kings burried in titanic holy graves
our system has been ripe for transformation for more than a century
but it has barreled along bringing calamitous climate change and resurgent white supremacy
we look to our secular prophets of revolutionary creeds
but still yearn for deeper forces to meet our psychospiritual needs
the ancient faiths were woven from parables giving guidance to our people
they imagined our place in the vast cosmos and built mosques, temples, and steeples
the global carnage on the horizon will require all our powers of resistance
we must uproot capitalism and replace this sick and toxic system
i take pride in solidarity and in relationships of trust and love
i take pride in our legacy of struggle and hold faith in the stars above
i see fractals in the heavens and a derivative burried just deep enough to see it
the double helix of our dna gives birth to a monster queer phoenix
we need revolutionary praxis for these cataclysmic times
we need to harness the synaptic brilliance embedded in our jedi minds
he vistas of science fiction are becoming reality
we are prisoners of the matrix—prisoners yearning to be free
unleash your inner god and imagine your divine spark
our red and black flags and branded A’s will arise to make their mark
second image is by PKRO >> pkro.tumblr.com
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2018
