New Tomorrow

Silent as the final hour heralding a quake, we cut the wire

We slipped the guard, sprayed "LOVE" across the barricades.

As searchlights swooped and froze and failed to isolate

a trace of life outside the gates of New Tomorrow.

The penalty for deviation's clear to those with ears

and eyes. We stretch our claws behind closed doors.

We always have our alibis. Outside we smile with

lips zipped, eyes fixed forward. We never criticise the

pure and guiding Light of new Tomorrow.

But though they burned the history books, they

cannot kill the ghost that cruises Blindman's

boulevard and plants a rose who flings his seeds

of Breakdown Bridge and sees a legend grow of life

beyond the throes of New Tomorrow.

And we have watched the sun roll down the

mountain to a frozen lake. We have heard our laughs

go on forever deep inside a crystal cave. We

told them as they plunged the needle, pledging

our escape from the all-embracing arms of New

Tomorrow. We shall see our kingdom come!