I used to dream of winning the Nobel Prize
For peace and then for literature 
Coz I wanted to be recognised 
And mean something in somebody’s life
I grew older then I saw
Humanity is going through the great thaw
Where we are frozen in place 
Slowly expanding as a human race
Out of our beliefs and systems 
Our fear and our resistance 
And as the calamity grows 
The collective ego in its death throes 
Makes some noise 
While someone says boys will be boys 
But to make war
Is futile because what’s it all for 
And if Ken faces Ken
Do we just sacrifice all our men 
So our constitution 
Can go through a revolution 
To say we are free
If it were up to me 
I would point out the flaw
That has us all labouring under the law
Of the material dimension
Like the gig is rigged with poor suspension
And all the adults fight
As the children ask “Will it be alright?”
And wonder if they will grow into
The terrible things that people do
To each other under duress
And you can say it’s just stress
To question existentially 
They had me put away for profanity
When I called it out
But all my self doubt
Snaps the thread 
And I wake up out of my head
Where the mind controls 
Women, men and their respective roles 
Yes, if you haven’t guessed 
I am far from impressed 
With the status quo
But how do I change it, I just don’t know
Live the hermit life
Opt out of work and being a wife
Stand tall and true
Only to have people talk down to you
Like you’re delusional too
This is the way it is or haven’t you
Realised 
But my skies 
Are open and free
Something in the clouds came down and blessed me 
Now I write and write 
About the sunlight
And how it triumphs over night
As we walk through
The valley in the shadow of the death that I knew
Watched it take away
My childhood like I didn’t have a say
But innocence returned 
As the threads were burned 
Like vines that entrap 
Eventually they fell off the map
That told me where to go
It’s been years but the diamond show

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