It Failed to Explode

It failed to explode Talk is cheap An euphoric reflex As tensions overheat Action comes cheap Romance and emancipate Romance and emancipate As tensions overheat As tensions overheat Define liberty But a short-lived reprieve until It's once again displaced? Grievances cease? To hang on tenterhooks until To hang on tenterhooks until It's once again displaced? It's once again displaced? It failed to depose It stalled at the coming to blows It failed to explode Explode, explode Celebratory in the debris Deceptive empirical collapse Yet it failed to atone It failed to explode Sadly illusive in its epoch-making Pocket change for a moment of peace Because it failed to disown It failed to explode There's always a hole to fill Circumventing convictions Autocratic traits are a constant If at first (to appease) with a different spin It failed to explode Outside watchers beat their brows Nurturing vested interests Is the infinite struggle worth it When there's always a hole to fill? It failed to explode It failed to explode