i’m choking on the sunlight washing over this world like it’s
trying to bleach out the blood stains soaking into the soil
from all the times humanity has proven to the universe
that we’re too ignorant to notice
that we’ve desecrated the land we call home,
even though ‘home’ is a feeling i buried a long time ago

when the earth is stripped inside out,
all you’ll find is a graveyard of broken promises
from every parent in the world who swore to a pair of infant eyes
i’ll always protect you
and instead found themselves in a hurricane of despair
cursing their own breath for letting whatever god they worship
make them into liars

if there is a god with the existential powers that be,
why won’t he make the angels wait?

closing your eyes to the universe makes it easy to ignore
the pointless wars fought over a petty man’s pride,
and the way children in some countries are no more
than expendable pawns on a chess board,
and how cultural individuality is perceived as a degeneracy
instead of one of the few naturally beautiful aspects of humanity;
but blind ignorance has been the root of most of the societal plagues
since the beginning of time;
when are we going to learn that
you can’t fight blindness by closing your eyes?

the blood painting our history hasn’t even dried yet
and we’re already abandoning our morality like
the last 200,000 years hasn’t taught us anything
about the souls giving themselves to the face of evil
or the lives we’re tossing into the wind without cause

i can feel their shadows clawing at my skin

and until we can own up to our flaws and our mistakes
and accept the guilt behind our actions
and fight to make a change in the way the world spins,
we really are no better than animals

our evolution is moving in reverse;
we're paving the way for our own armageddon

take a stand~
fight for the sake of your morality


~*m.k.