Renegades of the past

I saw it on their faces

When the worst was on

They wore it on their sleeves

Like only they can

                                                                    

With x, y and z

Soon the equations beset

On one side you place the guilt

On the other you place the farce

That cries, sobs and weeps

The dirty trick was on

To balance the sides

                    

Like ghouls we preyed on the dead

With blood all over the graveyard bed

Shouts of shattered dreams

And shapeless scattered screams

Seemed to wake us up at last

But we reneged only too fast

                          

Like autumn leaves of the east

The fall attracted only a holiday crowd

The drift happened before our eyes

With no one making raucous cries

                    

That silence spoke so much then

Doesn’t matter today

For we have opened our mouths

And let lies go on a grand parade