We’ve traded pearls for pigs We’ve chosen to stand afar in fear of beauty Behold we stand in ugly Facing walls that have bars and caged we are within We traded freedom for liberty We celebrate and pride humanity at the loss of its glory We indulge in excess and luxury and yet our souls have never been more deprived The beauty of right is ridiculed and exchanged at the expense of tolerance and rights The quality of our class is ******; we are low-low classless We cant even stick to the rules that govern our own kind We are debased; we tolerate the whips of our taskmasters Like slaves, our mentality is deranged from indoctrination’s cup we drank and we are well drunk What buffoonery, we ***** and bawl after which we crawl back like dogs we eat the same We lost the North point, we are confused, yet claim to know We are lost yet we claim to be found and know who we are We are running a race before even the ‘go gun’ fires We’ve overstepped our bounds and think we are within the limits and rights We are trespassing and we think we have visitation rights We do not have custody rights yet we hold the possession We want the glory but are not gutsy enough to stand and fight We choose our preachers and they tell us what we want to hear We are preaching to ourselves without scripture We listen to our own voices and call it ‘God’ How far from him we walk while claiming to be living at his feet Our voices are louder from empty shallow passion that claim wisdom We are bullying truth, we bruised it over and over again till it went to report us We would rather lie to ourselves that face the truth, we cant stand how ugly it reminds us we are We request sick leave and never go for our doctor’s appointment We plunge into deeper and deeper cave of darkness, we may find out there is no light at the end of the tunnel We hug and kiss darkness