The Exiles Band

Are you satisfied with the world you live in? Does each day fill you with unexpected surprises and gifts of understanding? Do you feel supported and honoured by those around you? Has the opportunity to live with freedom and dignity always been yours, or is that simply a delusion we are unwilling to abandon, even as it grasps at our limbs to drag us under the cold and unforgiving waters of truth? What choices do we have remaining? Is Exile our only real option?

"Let the heart of the young man still exile itself from the heart of the old man! 
and let the heart of the old man be exiled from that of the young man!

Let the sun and moon go! let scenery take the applause of the audience!
let there be apathy under the stars! 

Let freedom prove no man’s inalienable right! every one who can tyrannise, let him
 tyrannise to his satisfaction!" 
(From "Respondez!" Written by Walt Whitman)