A Blistering Poetry Wednesday

My friends Matthew and Josh recently started a community of bloggers doing what they call “Poetry Wednesday.” The idea is simple: post your favorite poetry (yours or someone else’s) on Wednesdays. And that’s it. So here’s mine:

When I was 13 or 14 I was in a discovery stage about music. I was a musical adrenaline junky - in search of anything "extreme" and one day I stumbled across a video of this song and it changed me. I had never experienced something so visceral, energetic, and empowering. It was like the punk rock I knew and loved, but it was different - it was "hardcore." And so began my foray into the world of the "hardcore scene" and this song has stuck with me ever since as my "first." And lately it feels more and more appropriate, but with more of a political bent...

"Blistered"
by Strife

Blistered by a raging sun's flames
Mankind sealed its fate in its haste
Warning signs sent time after time
We just sit back in all this waste
All this waste
And I will not wait
I'll climb from this place
I'll climb to the truth
To the truth
Blackened skies poisoned ashes cried
Mankind sealed its fate in it's haste
Warning signs sent time after time
We just sit back ignore the waste
All the waste
An I cannot wait
I'll climb from this place
I'll climb to the truth
To the truth
To the truth
Looking to the skies I can see the ashes falling
Looking to the shy I can see it all coming down
I can never give up
I can never give up - my fight's right
I can never give out
I can never give out because mine is right
My fight is truth
My fight is truth

by Ben Pike