You can drown in your perversions. You can stew in your thick hate. You can find your enemies surround you, And them, annihilate.
You can bathe in your own prejudice. You can reach for your release. You can tar and feather trinkets, If you don’t destroy my peace.
You can open every wound you’ve had. You can blame it on the rain. You can coat yourself in fervour Until you finally go insane.
You can hope for their destruction. You can poison their recipes, But in your own cake’s construction Don’t you dare destroy my piece.
But peace is an illusion. And which piece will finally fit? In the pain of their collusion What chance that peace will finally stick?
You can wonder what they’re thinking. You can judge and reprimand. But in the cloud of sweat and stinking Hate is all that makes you stand.
You can hope and pray for silence. You can hope and pray for fire. When you shovel coals of violence Hate seems all that you desire.
Behind your gas masks and your rhetoric You can make faces at their fleas. You can step on every snail you want, But don’t destroy my peace.
You can lock their thoughts in cages. You can manifest disease. You can curse the fallen ages, If you don’t destroy my peace.
But peace is an illusion. And which piece will finally fit? In the pain of their collusion What chance that peace will finally stick?
And that peace was only ever an illusion.
This is actually a song. It’s just over two years old and began playing itself in my head after hearing about the first hospital that Russia “accidentally” bombed in Ukraine. Obviously, there are a lot of other issues on my mind brought up as well. But that was the spark that lit this particular little fire.