Single Cells

We’ve been conquered, divided, isolated

With our knives at the throats of our neighbours

We turned allies to scapegoats and strangers

Drove nails through the hands that feed

We turned the gun to our own feet

Now we can’t stand for ourselves

Weakened, we devolve to single cells

Disconnected, infected, incubated

We are the hosts for the fear that they cultivated

In our fever dreams our outdated

Notions of pride grow teeth

We turned the gun to our own feet

Now we can’t stand for ourselves

Weakened, we devolve to single cells

We’ve never been more enslaved

The advertised freedom has bought us a smaller cage

They induce our rage

Knowing the more that we fight the more we tighten the chains

We turned the gun to our own feet

Now we can’t stand for ourselves

Weakened, we devolve to single cells

L. Switzer