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Making History

from Blood & Sand by Jade Sylvan

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Socrates stepped out in Athens,
toga flowing, teeth a-flashin.

The future was bleak for this gadfly.
Today was the day he was ordered to die.

The crowd all thought they saw him wink,
then he took the hemlock and started to drink.

Plato cried like a war widow,
but Socrates was no oracle.

He said, “Mine is not a life unexamined,
now let my history begin.”

Not another Ides of March had been so lovely.
The Senate met without pushing and shoving.

And though Antony tried to stop him at the pass,
Julius Caesar would be slain at last.

The daggers were sharp and they were swift.
No eye could follow where or when they hit.

But Caesar he did not shout.
He simply turned about.

He said, “Et tu, Brute?
We make history today.”

It was like any other April day
when the carpenter, Jesus, was taken away.

The kings would have their holy spoils
as the Son shuffled off bathed in oils.

He looked out on the sea of Gentile and Jew
and laughed, “Not a single one of them knows what they do.”

His mother, she wailed,
and his father had failed.

He said, “You’ve all forsaken me,
but hey, we’re making history.”

credits

from Blood & Sand, track released April 5, 2011
written by Jade Sylvan.
geetar, harmonica, and vox by Jade Sylvan.
keys by Lee Wizda.
produced by Lee Wizda.

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Jade Sylvan Somerville, Massachusetts

Jade Sylvan is a poet-turned-songwriter living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She fled her native Indiana shortly after graduating college to pursue dreams of becoming a writer. After getting her first book of poetry published and touring the country in 2009, she came home and began writing songs, which garnered instant attention in the famed Cambridge folk scene for their lyrics and melodies. ... more

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