Mandela Rift

(Look

again)

The portrait shifts behind the glass

A timeline burned beneath the ash

You swear you read it word for word

Now tell me why it never occurred

Rewritten while we slept!

Check the archives, check the spine

Someone tore out half the line

(No record found!)

We remember the funeral,

we remember the cell!

Now you tell us he lived,

now you tell us we fell!

Fold the pages, trade the past!

Nothing you recall will last!

The logo changed its yellow tail

A false horizon behind the veil

Millions nodding to a ghost

The very name we carried most Erased without a sound!

Check the records, rip the seams

Bleeding through the static screens

(It never was!)

We remember the funeral,

we remember the cell!

Now you tell us he lived,

now you tell us we fell!

Fold the pages, trade the past!

Nothing you recall will last!

(Nothing lasts!)

Two realities colliding...

Which one are we standing in?

(Bleed

through!)

Not the world we left behind!

Not

the world we knew!