The People are the Park

Hear us and understand.
You can never keep the People out of the Park for it is made real through our presence.

We hold this ground and consecrate it together with our movement
as we march collectively in a wave of torsos, limbs, and heads.
The Park is wherever the People assemble.

Your authority is your deprivation chamber making you ignorant of the unrest your cruelty has wrought.
You think that chain link can keep us out, that it will shield you from from our observance.
You are wrong. This twisted steel is no match to the manifold scrutiny of the People.
Hear us and understand our demands.

We demand what we were promised.
Our equality, respect for our humanity, and an opportunity to realize our happiness.
But you confuse ideology for ideals and in answer, you attempt to violently silence and erase us.

Still we are watching, standing here in our Park, bound in purpose.
Chanting this message to all those who would try to lock us out:
“You are the only trespasser in the People’s Park. Hear us and understand, you are the trespasser here.”