The First Step is Belief

The fire inside his mind was the recipient of
Campaigns for defeat to see it stomped out in the street

But their deeds he disavowed
He lived dissent and showed us how

The first step is belief that his life
Should have ended elsewhere than hunched over outside
That the struggle in which he fought
Was better off given his contribution
That people in cages the danger of constant surveillance
Don't breed contentment and compassion
That a needle and open arms
Are no greater threat than legislated murder

The first step is belief

The first step is belief that the constraints
We've taken for granted were simply imagined
That our brothers, sisters and cousins
Must not be fated as warehouse objects

DAWN OF THE FINAL PERSECUTION (Tempter and Ghoul)

Then we build against the fucking insane
Reality that he had lived and named