Legacy

Legacy

Do not tell me you do not believe in change

Out of your mind, you must be deranged

Snakes of doubt that poison your hope

Rejecting wings for a restricting iron rope

In a night of a thousand stars you gaze upon the dark

On a trail of a thousand paths upon none of which you embark

The odds are astronomical, you ask, what chance is there for success?

Only voices against a juggernaut, you claim, you’ll never clean this mess

What voice can dare to rise above the waves of greed and apathy?

Who’s to say there’s something to save, that we even wish to be free?

Oh the hypocrisy!

We stand upon a million hands, some known and others forgotten

The work of a million souls, the slowly dripping liberty they’ve begotten

Understand this, know it dearly, by betraying the present you betray the past

And compromise the future to foes who wish to see your hope breathe its last

There is a legacy to maintain, a history of progress won through blood and sweat

The relentless drive of change lighting the flames of freedom we can never forget

Every step you take, every word you speak, every breath you breathe is a debt

Their million eyes gaze down upon us, knowing their goal of liberty is not yet met

So, I implore you, do not dare reject their legacy, their efforts will not be in vain

Do not tell me you do not believe in change, that you do not believe in the value of their pain

Do not tell me you do not believe in dreams when you are living the dream of those slain

Do not dare disrespect their legacy, do not dare ever doubt that their hopes live on

Even when they lie in their unmarked graves, in a night of a thousand stars we are their dawn

We are their dawn, we are their sun, we are their legacy and yet we breathe on

The torch is in our hands, and whether we fail or succeed

Know that someday in that unknown future, we will be freed