To be a caged animal
and illicit stares
of shared despair
while trying to
clear the air here
of that ***** stench.

The populace passes
by my caged display
as I try to play
pretending that my pain
is not so real.

I dress myself up
in nice new things
watching how
the other animals swing.

Reality shows,
sports events,
and other
things
obfuscate
how human beings
isolate themselves.

My cage expands
to fit all my pretty things,
while my mind shrinks
and stinks of sinking fools
who are also drowning
in their own stool.

Think loud and talk softly so that many may hear you. When you speak softly those around you must silence themselves and open there ears. I hope people will learn just because you speak loudest does not mean you win the argument. If you must raise your voice and interrupt another person than you have proven only that you have a louder voice, in that moment.

Oh no,
the center
will hold
just fine.
It is
the rest of us
on the outside
that will
spin out
of control.

Universal morality does not work their is no cookie cutter solution for every moral quandary. However, this does not mean everything is relative. Moral judgments can be made by using empathy instead of ancient texts. It requires people to think deeply about what they do and who they do it to.

We are marred
marked to march
and make more war,
while the whole
world watches.
They may know
quite well
what we are
warring for,
but the media
makes us fools
by masking
the heart of
darkness
that greedy men
send our children
to fight for.

Her words were
as sharp as
the Reaper’s sickle,
severing my soul
into two separate shards
then splitting them
again and again
till all that I was,
was splinters
of my shadow self.

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