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#484 Tentang Kejadongan

BODOH itu satu penyakit 
Yang kini tular menjalar menyepit 
Seluruh batang tubuh sebangsa 
Tersengat tak kira miskin mahupun kaya 

BODOH jadi semakin liar
Bila JAHAT turut tersebar
Seluruh bangsa runtuh merana
Bila BODOH dan JAHAT bergabung kuasa

BODOH makin meracau kacau
Bila SOMBONG membikin sasau 
Seluruh warga terhukum sama
Bila sang JADONG diberi kuasa 

Benar kata pendeta ilmuwan 
JADONG alat perisai shaitan 

SOMBONG bikin pemimpin bebal 
BODOH bikin bangsa tersial 
JAHAT bikin negara gagal 

Otak beku, taring bersiung
Marakbar kamu, pemimpin JADONG!
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#479 On the Blasphemy of Broken Promises

The blasphemy of broken promises:
Your gift to those of us who marched to drums
In concert with your foes that you now bless
While we who kept the faith are given crumbs
   For power’s sake power is placed on pedestal
   The sheen of reformation effaced, dull.
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#477 Tentang Kedurjanaan Yang Kini Terhalal

Ah, rupanya kau sama saja
Dengan durjana-durjana yang sebelumnya!

Dahulu kau berkhutbah garang
Tentang tangan-tangan terlarang
Merobekcarik tanpa bersilu 
Mencurirompak tanpa termalu 

Kini khutbah terkunci sepi
Disimpan balik tabir suami
Merobekcarik jadi terhalal
Mengaducuri jadi terbatal 

Ah, rupanya kau sama saja
Dengan durjana-durjana yang sebelumnya!
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#476 On Your One Last Desperate Charge

With blackened hands and blackened hearts they sought 
To drive the knife into your merry band
Imperilling what you have built, hard-fought
So now you mount your steed, a final stand
   To guard against the vultures looming large
   You gird yourself for one last desperate charge.
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#464 On Preening and the Coming Reckoning

For five and score years you've proclaimed the fight
For Truth and Justice to prevail anew
But Hope is now corroded by the blight
Of compromise: a coward's fatal brew
   You revel in the preen of hard-won power
   But every day brings closer reckoning's Hour.
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#457 On Your Revelry

So this is how
You climbed your way 
Up to the top:
To those above, servility
To those below, duplicity 
To fellow peers, vile treachery  

You revel now in borrowed power 
But He awaits, within the Hour.