Kudos to Saul Williams

Gun in your mouth.
Claim your famous last words.
Will you deny your dreams?
Your hidden ambition,
shadowed by the life you’ve
chosen instead?
Or bold and absurdly deny
that gold is worthy enough
to forfeit a life
worth living?

No.
Truth will reign.

Conviction’s redemption
will prove sovereign.
No more
will half-truths
of Money
and Success
and Religion
and all the Things that we have to convince ourselves of
Rule.
Who.
We.
Are.
Refuse it all.
Claim your famous last words.

So scream of the hate abounding,
the absence of grace surrounding
while your guilty heart is pounding.
Desperately persuade me
that your life is a falsehood,
that you would change if you could.



...It’s not too late for you.



I withdraw the barrel.
Now go, and do likewise.