A Turn of the Cycle

Author's note: 2-3 meanings, themes of love and revolution

After the bell,
When light falls from the windows,
And darkness overruns,
Desolate hallways,
Students gather in silence,
In strength, in protest
For a new beginning,
Men arise, with hearts pure,
For the good of the students,
Slowly coming forth,
To begin cycle anew:
The revival of Red,
Rising from the ashes,
Of a spent, purifying fire
A love, so pure,
It is a sacrifice,
For strength Unity,
For an Ideal, once thought dead
Once times of old begin anew,
When the wheel of time turns another round:
When men awaken from their jaded slumber,
To awake to a world in need,
When passion once again
Flows through their veins,
And love fills the visions
And actions of all men,
When great minds,
Turn their gears yet again
In aid of the people
Whom they love
Who braced themselves,
For coming days
Days come and past
Dark, and stormy
In times of transition
When all men seek
The ever blazing stars
Of Friendship above,
Tantalizingly close at hand,
To reach up from the rubble
Of Conflict and morphine:
A great age, reborn once again
When men once more
Embrace each other
In uncertain feel,
To revive the love
Once thought lost,
And never there,
The great vision
Of a vast crowd
On a stormy day,
Meeting together
For a great marriage
Of two noble persons,
Of students singing
With all their hearts
A manifesto of existence
 Declaring their voice,
Proclaiming their passion,

Their true love, and desire
For a glorious new era
Of inter-dependency
And co-prosperity,
An example
For all men
To see
(M.)