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Doomed by YOU

Your tendencies to feed us white lies make some feel safe.

You know that, but the truth is: no one is safe from you.

Indiscrete imperialist nations

taking over each other,

yet they are so discrete

dropping bombs on the innocent

and saying “bon apetite.”

**** your sugar-coated ideals

blind-folding the already ignorant eyes

distorting my views of human kind;

making me wish I wouldn’t be

a member of this primitive, violent race.

Beasts with the dangerous advantage

of intelligence; feeling superior to

all life on earth, even each other.

Beating each other over colors,

Beating each other over ideals,

Killing each other over pointless

emotions produced by chemicals in the brain.

Behind the curtain of our repetitive lives,

lies the world so easily hid under the glass,

but people turn away from the truth;

afraid to realize

that you are driving us to our Doom.

 

Dancing in the rain of freedom,

instead of drowning myself in

the priceless, suspending ocean.

In your perspective,

complete freedom is too much

to handle, but I sit here

writing my thoughts, delivering the truth

Of the freedom within ourselves;

while you think of ways to give us illusions

of choice and freedom

that prevent us from discovering

the truth within ourselves

and releasing the truth behind your masked self.

 

Shoving in our face free buttons

that say, “Freedom isn’t Free.”

War is a business!

So of course,

You want us to fight to be free.

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Apr 8, 2010
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