Cancel Culture (Poem)

 Cancel Culture

All that our ancestors laboured to build,

Civilisation,

In but a day, we reduced to rubble.

Déconstruction.

Their grandest design we disdain.

Dérision.

Their clever literature—

Litter, assured.

Their honour—

Their shame.

Condamnation.

Give us liberty, we’ll give you death.

‘Let the dead bury the dead,’

Once it was said.

Éradication.

‘The future is ours,’

That’s what we said.

Présomption.

Tear it all down,

Burn it to the ground.

Annulation.

L'existence précède l'essence.

Évolution.

So, we’ll take it from here.

We’ll make it from here.

Auto-actualisation.

Not them.  Just us.  Justice.

Right—us.  Righteous. 

Auto-béatification.

C'est maintenant notre heure de manger.

Notre heure, Our hour.

Substitution.

We are youth.  Adolescents.

Révolution.

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