It's hard to be happy in this world.
Constantly we are faced with hardship.
Not only in our own lives, but the lives of others
In the form of media, social or news or television
And it's impossible to hide from it.
We are exposed to everything now
In this age of technology, there is no innocence
There is no privacy or solitude
There is only ignorance to the truth
and lies spewing out of the tongues of dragons
who control the sheep and lead them
to their fiery mouths only to chew them up
and spit them back out to wait until
the next 6 o'clock horror show
Another black kid shot, who cares?
Another mother taken away from her children
Big deal! celebrities go to africa to help
the starving black babies with swollen tummies
while here in the land of the tv slaves and
home of the brave-only-when-it-benefits-me
we refuse to give our third slice of
ultimate supreme extra meat deluxe pizza
to the homeless man living on the street
who hasn't eaten food in days
you threw some out this morning
because it didn't look good to you anymore.