Martyrs and Zombies
by Dagny Scott
 

blinded zombie is ignorance attacking vision
jealousy or spite lending angry power
to bring down the artist from his flight
and keep the innovator locked up insane

dreaming martyr alone defies deadly, brainless fear
brings irrationality into cruel lighting of logic
shows the way and for this knowledge is repaid
with endless attacks and a final assault unto death

generations of children face the curse alone afraid
young spirits have no room to grow alive
and in the end most wither away and die
the strong can survive but live tortured by corpses

angel paints sorrows of the deprivation of the human spirit
for the angel knows cosmic great glorious bliss can be
but only for a spirit strong enough to stand on its own feet
wise enough to know good and live free and choose to love

love unearths magic for the desperate fierce rebel goddess
to give oneself as only she who knows herself can do
to give all mind spirit and body to appreciate the giving
and to get back love and be all the richer in return