Weapons of Refusal

Try to capture
 While clutching at your chest
 A scrap or fragment of your hope
 Lost long ago
 Blistering palms
 And your knuckles pale, spectral
 New death, born timid and companionless
 Hunting immunity
 ♪
 Everyone ceasing their quivering
 A desperate and dying wish
 Heartbreak to strangle complacency
 And banish all prior dusks
 ♪
 Gasping lungs beg for the fires to cauterize
 You huddled in trenches
 From the glare of derision
 In the jaws of disfavor
 Each a daughter of contempt
 Who would unsheathe in vengeance
 One thousand blades glinting
 And bury all cycles of abuse, uneulogized
 ♪
 This, the only promise
 There will be no appeal for your mercy
 Sick with their pride they will writhe
 In the gaze of their fathers and howl
 Crushed by the weight of their misdeeds
 No one ever mended
 Nothing ever reconciled
 So sings the choir
 ♪
 No one ever mended
 Nothing ever reconciled
 So sings the choir
 ♪
 Boundless ruin will find your captors
 Crescent in you
 Glittering torch of those disfigured
 With fury renewed
 Expel every deceit you swallowed
 Choke not on their histories
 But flourish breathing free air once again
 You will undo their works
 You will make cinders of their cities
 Baring your teeth
 Wielding the weapons of refusal
 Matching their violence
 ♪
 Matching their violence