When value is on the line At the total human level The house is about to win Every sum and spark The loss of us The death of independence Such as it has been Will another will supplant Thinking speech Angry rants Shall we give these skills away Such that something else has sway? Can a question fully formed Survive the bricks that scatter stormed? Lose the reason And language And sums And large scale And there is plenty of territory For a free mind And silent talk