137. Poem - The Song of Solemnity

The Song of Solemnity- Stanza I - by Parlexia

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The Song of Solemnity- Stanza I“They built the system before they built the walls.”

They mapped the code before the chains,

hid futures deep in silent veins.

The genome whispered: sell the key,

they patented biology.

A Tuesday sky turned steel and flame.

The towers fell. They fed the blame.

New towers rose, of law and screen,

and safety sold what truth had been.

They trained the child to pass the test,

to sit up straight, obey, suppress.

“No Child Left” the slogan lied.

They marched them forward, uniformed pride.

They inked new laws the eye can’t see,

with logs and scans and policy.

They labeled facts as threats instead,

then pathologized what people said.

They called it free, then locked the gate.

They called it fate, but measured hate.

They called it home, connection, kin,

then built the cage and locked us in.

No siren blew, no final sound,

just flat-lit screens and click-click rounds.

The doors all closed with gentle glide,

but none of them unlocked inside.

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