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Jun 2018
I see the devil inside the people I love
I see a savior inside these dangerous drugs
My first existential crisis, don’t know how I’ll
survive
It made me understand, how we live ain’t alive
Post pictures of the good, ‘likes’ give us false hope
Ignoring how we feel, it’s the only way we cope
Convince ourselves that we’re all stars of our reality show
But really we’re just flawed, and won’t admit we’re alone

Ain’t no man up in the clouds that’s gonna bring us peace
People dying every day, guns are filling the streets
Yet when Sunday comes around, we sit in silence, and preach
Opioid of the masses brings us false security,
Side effects may include: hatred for those that disagree
Please don’t tell me I’m the only one that can see

Pop another pill when we realize it’s fleeting
Gives us hope that life has some ******* real meaning
But really we’re a collection of atoms on a tiny blue dot
And to be honest, no one is as holy as we thought
Jobs made billions off the backs of kids
Madoff acted out of his own self-interest
Ghandi was a hypocrite and mysoginist
Churchill was a ardent white supremacist,
Stalin almost brought the world to nuclear devastation
Einstein made a bomb that wiped out generations
****** oversaw the execution of millions,
Very slim margins separate heroes from villains

Sorry, didn’t mean to burst your bubble
That blue pill is blissful but the red pill is trouble
Propaganda fades away and all you have is reality
At the very least once, every human is bound to see
Life has no meaning, fairytales just don’t exist
There are numerous crises that we won’t outlive
We’re all given an option: either red or blue
The choice is yours, ignorance or truth?
Written by
J  21/M/Pennsylvania
(21/M/Pennsylvania)   
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