Good Luck
We are a stubborn people,
defiant to the core.
This isn't the first time we've
been here.
We massacred the Indians and
started a war, and fought and
died and bled to live free from
the burden of taxes and regulations.
But much has changed and
we now wear chains of our own making,
and lay yokes on necks across the sea.
Good luck on your conquest,
because we light the sky every year
to remind the universe that we'll burn
this fucker down before we lose it.
And by the time you land on our shores,
you will have landed on a man-made sun,
burning black with flame and heat and
the smoke will mushroom above us all
and none of us will ever taste tomorrow.
Then our ghosts will hunt your ghosts
and we will start a colony in your paradise,
we'll trade halos for acres until you fall
down a wormhole of anguish to a hell
only we can imagine. So, good luck.
We are waiting. We are human. We are free.