Knives were
not your strongest weapon.
No:
Those were your words.
You incited within us
a fire.
a revolution.
(Ideas are bulletproof)
You once said
that writers use lies
to tell the truth.
Yet you were the only one
who never lied.
No:
You became truth.
(People should not be afraid of their governments....)
You embodied a force
more powerful than one
could ever believe.
You woke us up
When we were asleep in the lull
of fascism.
You found us
When we were lost in darkness.
(no...)
You were a dance
in the light
of the old jukebox,
You were an orchestra
of