Unbeknown to many of us tolls a litany of fear
Underwater currents swell the waves of our dramatic past
To submerge all things complex and austere
Florid opulence and dismal dearth are the wrongs we cast
Swept out of the discourse of poise
It's perhaps the time to make some noise
What you were taught by your culpable dead
Is deleterious
Ronny and Maggie stole it all like postmodernist Bonny and Clyde
And the frivolous dissent of generations past is ours
Reprimanding morals and literacy
The shadow we cast : a leisurely walk in a green that will not
Last
Swept out of the discourse of poise
Could have been the time to raise our voice
What you were taught by your culpable dead
Is deleterious
What will be taught by us culpable dead
Is deleterious