Dream your peace
Whilst the world rages
Go lie in your steel-walled sleep
Let the crueller men deceive
Let better men bleed
A sleeping mind for sleeping times
What’s another casualty?
Doesn’t affect me
So you let deflections become reflexes
Unknowingly
Happenstance you came to live
In first world palms, with first world eyes
Never looking back at second place
Least of all the third in line
Whatever gets you to sleep at night
With such birth rights,
With such languor
I will rule the world in my own mind
With such circumstantial, beneficial, superiority
I will turn a blind eye
To everybody’s suffering but mine
Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 12:51 PM UTC
Dream your peace
Whilst the world rages
Go lie in your steel-walled sleep
Let the crueller men deceive
Let better men bleed
A sleeping mind for sleeping times
What’s another casualty?
Doesn’t affect me
So you let deflections become reflexes
Unknowingly
Happenstance you came to live
In first world palms, with first world eyes
Never looking back at second place
Least of all the third in line
Whatever gets you to sleep at night
With such birth rights,
With such languor
I will rule the world in my own mind
With such circumstantial, beneficial, superiority
I will turn a blind eye
To everybody’s suffering but mine
11:18pm, April 26th 2013
So many selfish people, so little time . . .
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