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Afraid of Our Fellow Man

We're as fake as the plastic melting under our skin

 

The collective imagination of a societal binge

 

Our beauty is a mask, a lie told to us by magazines

 

The product of industrial dreams, all fantastic schemes

 

We live in a Barbie Doll world, where we worship fake *******

 

We lift weights at Gold's Gym while we pound our huge chests

 

We know nothing of true beauty, under the façade of the Glossy

 

Eight by Ten

 

 

We cover our blemishes and we can't even be comfortable in our own skin

 

We are infatuated with the surface, skin deep, lustful of the pretenses

 

Our masks hide our vulnerabilities and our true intent

 

While reality is crumbling at our feet and we hide beneath a veneer of

 

A glossy face shot, the airbrushed images on the cover-girl-poster-boy-pin-up centerfold

 

We've lost sight of the aged and the gifts they hold

 

Celebrities ride around in window tinted limousines, so they can't be seen but we're so pretty that we have to preen

 

 

The paparazzi all want the next shot for the next scandal but they airbrush that too

 

We are so busy believing the lies that we have become afraid of the truth

 

Camera's are as ubiquitous as grass and our privacy is all but laughable while our smiles aren't genuinely affable

 

We post pictures of ourselves on Facebook, yet our self esteem could use a second look

 

We talk each other up and beat each other down, but we're keeping it onehundred while hiding a frown

 

We've become fast paced and slow witted, we're breaking the seams that our families knitted

 

We place beauty on a pedestal and worship at its alter, but we fail to foster true beauty in our children and wonder why they falter

 

 

We listen to society and shun our parents, our role models have become degenerates

 

We allow our little girls to dress like tramps and wear makeup and our little boys don't respect them and treat them like toys

 

And we wonder why they cut themselves

 

We pay movie stars and football players millions so we can entertain ourselves

 

But we can't pay our teachers enough to educate the masses

 

yet it's okay to collect a check and sit on our *****

 

And our troops don't have the armor they need because of our self indulgent greed

 

We forget about the little guy as we climb the corporate ladder to survey the sky at the top

 

But when the **** goes down, we can't pick up a mop

 

We won't lift a finger to lend a hand because we're so afraid of our fellow man

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Sep 16, 2014
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