| So many | |||
| Romantic | |||
| Ideals | |||
| Stories | |||
| Learned from | |||
| Schools | |||
| Books | |||
| Pretty pictures of | |||
| How things are | |||
| Supposed to be | |||
| Wish they were | |||
| Real | |||
| Some semblance of | |||
| Reality | |||
| But it's all | |||
| Merely | |||
| Rhetoric | |||
| Hiding the | |||
| Injustice | |||
| Inequity | |||
| Hate | |||
| How could they | |||
| Get | |||
| Away with it | |||
| Distorting so much | |||
| History | |||
| Life | |||
| Love | |||
| Yet I still | |||
| Hold | |||
| On | |||
| Thinking things | |||
| Should be | |||
| How they | |||
| Taught me | |||
| Dreaming | |||
| Dreams of a | |||
| World | |||
| Ruled by | |||
| Justice | |||
| Equality | |||
| Love | |||