Who will say no?

Who is the man
Who will say no?
Or the woman
Who says the same?

No
No to torture
No
No to hate
No
No to unrestricted power
Unrestricted power to the state?

Are there men and women
Among us
Now
Who will step out from the crowd
And let themselves be counted
Marked
Targeted?

I dreamt I saw St. Polycarp
Before the altar of Imperial deity
When giv'n the chance to save his life
Instead condemned the cult of fealty

The cult that worshiped earthly power
The cult that hailed the august Caesar
The cult that loved the shining sword
The cult that drank the blood of nations
The cult that knew, beyond all doubt
That Rome - the Rome that stood 1,000 years
That Rome - would stand 10,000 more
And yet, within three centuries
Collapsed from its own weight
Weight it could not bear?

Who among us now, today
Who will now say NO!
Who will vote
NAY!
?