force fed lies from birth subliminal messages infest my upbringing blindfolded by greed I don't see you starve or smell the pollution I can't hear the bullets flying because my ears are stuffed with lies they say the government has my interests at heart that the school systems are built to support me and we're more equal than ever so why is the wage gap wider than my young eyes and how is it that a country that screams freedom won't put down their weapons when their children are bleeding why do I know how to dissect a frog ignorant of the fact innocent civilians are slaughtered intestines on display like the green amphibian under my knife because I can kiss a girl in a drunken game of spin the bottle but such an act would get me killed in 11 countries and is still illegal in 72 why do I know the sum of internal angles in a triangle yet I don't know how to read the signs of suicidal friends when statistically 1 out of 5 people I roam the halls with struggle with a mental illness even though more than half of those suffering have no access to treatment we are collectively clueless I am no stranger to privilege my gratitude is not withheld but why am I more worthy than the child forced out of his country for his religious identity, for being himself? why when accessing the privilege of education they don't teach me how to help other humans when did sums become more important than knowledge of current wars did you know there's more than 10 of them? because I've only heard of one I believe that you choose to do nothing but if i am never aware that I have a choice nothing can change and even though everyone has a voice people with the solutions only choose to hear those with a status how is it that such screams of desperation sound so quiet to them why are those in power of whole countries so blind to our demands why do they make things impossibly easier for those whom already have wealth and advantage when those stripped of human rights always seem to escape their greedy sight but some of us have something they fear something that never crossed their closed minds we have the power to create our own opportunities we can force those whom are voluntarily deaf to hear so hear me in my passage only seen by very few this platform may be small but my words shout at you an action no matter how small a voice no matter how soft provokes change if not in yourself then in even the most unfamiliar faces but the difference between thinking and action making is you