The Right to Rage
I am asserting the right to rage when the rage is warranted,
Not the decorative and performative and the coarsened,
Display of emotion for its own sake and its own end,
But the right to the legitimate fury of the man around the bend.
Every man has the right to the anger that is earned,
Every man has the right to the fury that is turned,
On the specific and the documented and the provable wrong,
And the right to rage is the right to the righteous song.
The right to rage, the assertion of the anger in its place,
The right to rage, the claim of the legitimate and the case,
For the expression of the fury when the fury has a cause,
And the right to rage does not require your applause.
So here is the rage in its rightful and its earned expression,
Not the rage of the irrational and not the rage of the session,
Of the unsupported and the vague and the unearned,
The right to rage is the right of the man who has earned.