De La Rocha Pens Occupy Poem

Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha has released an Occupy Wall Street poem in solidarity for the protesters.

"This poem is dedicated to the Occupy movement whose courage is changing the world. Stay Strong. We are winning."

The beginning spills through city veins

Into the arteries

And under powers poison clouds

We move like the shadows

Through the alley ways

Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams 


Through barren factories 


Through boarded schools 


Through rotting fields 


Through the burning doors of the past 


Through imaginations exploding 


To break the curfews in our minds



Our actions awaken dreams of actions multiplied 


A restless fury 


Once buried like burning embers 


Left alone to smolder 


But together stacked under the walls of a dying order 


All sparks are counted 


Calloused hands raised in silence 


Over the bonfire of hope unincorporated 


It's flame restores tomorrows meaning 


Across the graveyards of hollow promises 


As gold dipped vultures pick at what is left of our denial



And the youngest among us 


Stare at us stoned like eyes determined 


And say 
Death for us may come early

Cause dignity has no price 


At the corner of now and nowhere 


Anywhere 


Everywhere 


Tomorrow is calling 


Tomorrow is calling

Do not be afraid





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