Across the centuries the echoes of your greatness
Drove all the cultural mutations
Your innovations and your odd intuitions
Dimmed the faint outlines of your loneliness
Cast in your time and projected into future
Smartness is slanted to conform
You left behind countless ideas and projects
Hidden beneath your mirror writing
Studies of flight and simple bird sightings
Were vital nurture for your intellect
Cast in your time and projected into future
Smartness is slanted to conform
They twisted your life
During 500 years
They built their lies on your conception of reality
They misused your name
To worship their interests
They enslaved your wisdom to the altar of greed
Like many leaders in human history
You've been disputed by nations
Your genius downgraded to the creation
Of an untruthful branded iconography
Cast in your time and projected into future
Smartness is slanted
After your father's miserable behavior
The story replicates itself
Extraordinary shrunk till off-the-shelf
Subdued to money, the savior