YOUTH'S ENLIGHTENMENT


Today our headline words
must command powers
to light lamps for truth,
demand that state
and press to stamp out
deadlines for justice
and for the youth to listen
to more thoughtful times,

Now we wait for hours
to air our grievance
and bureaucracy
drives us crazy,

Today government unites
with the plutocracy
in every land
we ask chance to fight
much more
for peace and democracy,

Our task is enlightenment
for our emotional security
in a furious harassment
not to be sent to war.