You Too Will Scatter Lyrics

They were still talking shit about
some unpaid check for freedom
that felt cathartic but meant nothing
when the sky it started humming
Still transfixed by the crucifixion of the Other
Lulled to sleep by the easiest of answers

Did it make you any safer
to see a scheme & not a mother
not a child but an invader
to see a threat and not a man?

Will you remember your opinions on the sanctity of borders
when retribution comes in hot to penetrate this holy chamber
& you run like anyone to anywhere there's not
a target on your head, your gods long locked down
in a place as far from here as you can get?

No human kindness overflowing
Just curdled milk & honeyed poison
that all made such sense at some strangers expense
& all the walls you thought were to keep them out
were all the time to keep you in

When it's you, will you remember
you helped make a crime of shelter?
How you cheered for all your keepers
as they lined up all your neighbors
Against the wall.