Never Ban a Book

Never ban a book 
for the road to hell is paved 
with burned and banned books 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to trash creation 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to silence dissent 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to torch thoughts to ash 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to bury the past 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to conceal some truth 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to slander the clean 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to claim art obscene 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to demonize words 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to censor classics 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to uncreate worlds 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to mute daring tongues 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to burn blasphemers 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to exile outcasts 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to erase the strange 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to kill queer ideas 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to thwart truth seekers 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to barricade brains 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to breed ignorance 

Never ban a book 
for that is the devil’s work 
to bind and blind minds 

Stand to shield a book 
for it holds creation’s glow 
of word-sparked first light 

Defend every book
as you would any poor soul 
facing mobs and flames