Resister Reprise

To the high achievers Hitting glass ceilings Dealing with a sinking feeling Gender outlaws, ignoring decorum The form bending gender hackers Psychedelic transporters Innerspace voyagers Subverting endorsed world orders Traversing reality's borders Dreamers, I know I'm not the only one And yes it been lonely but no were not done Disposition, positively utopian In food banks, to every carer The troubled and the crazed To every colour, blend and shade 'Cos race is man made And racism is learned And we have to unlearn it And understand how our institutions preserve it In the modern day cotton fields Concealed in the belly of this machine To the lovers, whichever form you adore From monogamy to poly-amore To the affectionate friends Tenderly bending convention Rejecting the expected Sentimental perspectives On what love can be The unexpected directions Make love more collective Love a little bit more And then maybe eventually We can make love not war The environmental campaigners The guardians, the ravers To those less able, the life savers The nurses and surgeons feeling burdened But refusing to pull the curtain On the national health service Souls, using prose to pick holes in status quo's 'Cos a real artist questions whatever she knows To the spriritual, whose faith does not dictate the fate of another To all of my feminist sisters and brothers The ex-communicated, incarcerated, the ex christians and muslims Questioning mysoginistic customs At protests and demonstrations To the gamers on Playstations Because inspiration is thin & competition is in Just so this world has to make Some of us win And some of us losers, inequality booming Consumed by a meaningless work epidemic It's systemic & we need a movement Collective self-improvement, it's time 'Cos none but ourselves can free our minds To recognise the ways the capitalist enterprise is normalised Get up up be a resister Get up up be a resister Get up up be a resister