fauxcroft

How times change

Spent my teenage years,

Following football

All across Europe,

And attending anarcho punk concerts,

Marching with CND standing for up for animal rights,

Crying animal liberation please,

I drank too much and fought too much

A misspent youth but I didn’t give a fuck,

But now I am older I see them as reckless days

But I am still an anarcho punk and that won’t change,

I still stand up for animal rights

Still stand against Nazi’s and the white supremacist right,

The only difference now I no longer fight

I found a better way than that aimless plight,

I choose to focus on love, peace and light

I stand up now for the climate crisis plight,

I stand against those who divide rather than unite

Basically I stand for all that’s right,

I no longer drink and I read a lot

Laugh at Twitter trolls who have lost the plot,

Who tend to spread negativity and toxicity non stop,

I feel really sad for them lot

And show them even more love,

Because they need it more

I see how it can easily destroy,

The goodness that they may have inside

Turned this way by hateful lies,

No matter your nationality, colour belief or political side

Always conduct yourself with dignity and pride,

And show your compassion not been fried,

And be awake and glide on conscious wings

And fly free and high above the swamp of self despite,

And display your intellectual ways

By casting hateful words and acts away,

And be the better person in everyway

And fight for equality and tolerance today,

And we can bring about a global change,

By being balanced and letting extreme factions

Who try to side us just fade away into grey,

Because promoting love, peace and light is I have found

The path to finding and living better days.