Encoded in Fire

 
…and so it was, that the poets from all around the world
Had been detained by the Governmental Oath Peremptory
All their works, whether on paper or virtual were seized
And they were to be re-educated under the new authority
 
First they were stripped of all their rights and civil liberties
Especially those of academic accomplishments and artistry
Scholars were subjected to regulation and domination
To the point that they even lost their intellectual property
 
Those who opposed this autocratic administration
Were imprisoned and given relentless non-stop shock therapy
And if they were still resistant to this kind of treatment
They were then given a temporal, radical lobotomy
 
Their words, their poems, everything was being stolen
Many were silenced in the darkness lost in incoherency
Memories erased purposefully like paralyzing dementia
Unless they claimed their loyaly to the new authority
 
Meanwhile the autocrats and cronies read all the works
Absorbing every word as if to burn them into ashes
Applying their views and beliefs in their despotic ways
Then twisting and distorting the truth to rule the masses
 
But there was one man, who sent out a message
Encoded in fire that others could see, hear, smell and feel
As his name would appear in the flame of every blaze
A ghost writer is coming, and it’s hell on two wheels…