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We sacrifice what’s valuable for less Than it accrues in interest on your debt Which will only double like the puddles When tears from struggles and regret Come to collect your self respect if our soul was fashionable you can bet Most people would strangle the life from it, just to wear it around their neck under the impression our possessions worth the Misdirection from stressin including the Indiscretions collectiin Like it’s infection is a blessin Ignoring what’s left in its lessons like imperfections are progression Lack of investment in self affection leaves us detesting our Reflection Masking insecurities with our ******** women with make up, no exemption Our projected Self imagerys Placed above our spiritual growth, causin is the tension The Self hatred, suicide, depression We forgot who we were impressin our vanity is insanity, and its calamity is savagery but these obsessions are Useless as thoughts and prayers Or Facebook profile pics with frames Showing support for tragic Terrorist attacks, or mass shootings that aim at the innocent, but the truth is Most don’t care, as much as they buzz They do it to feel better about doing nothing, when even donating blood, is doing more that fake Facebook posts Of useless sympathy could ever It’s just condescending well wishes from fake ******* we all must endeavour As if were all eating each other’s ******** Putting on fake fronts for other fakes like a masquerade for assholes,to dress like **** heads, for other ******* snakes and it’s hilarious, but also nefarious, just like your local politician who’s poisonous like physicians, sellin big pharmas drugs wit prescriptions causing opioid epidemic, addiction but cognitive dissonance is positioned So whistle blowing, the little knowing is labelled conspiracy theory so vision Is lost when brainwash takes intuition leaving thought useless like tuition why invest in an education system when our own government ****** isn’t societys becoming economical prison but we just allow the constant piracy too self indulgent to protect our rights to protest and fight, so our privacy Like freedom of speech, gone entirely before anyone starts their ******* too distracted by issues for division media creating bias’ on our television Instigating prevention of unity risen til our power in numbers gives immunity strategically calculated, and predicated on us inadvertently granting impunity to the rich and powerful when brutally is gun smoke, and cut throat lunacy expressed in attitude to our neighbours, how can strangers have a community? narrow minded views cause collision sexuality, race, and gender, opinions arguing over the illusion of equality ignoring quality, still we argue religion and beliefs, that make us see difference Instead of what’s common, our positions On protecting our family, our jobs, the fundamentals in the life we are livin too blind to see any of it clearly Most of our control we lost when ignored busy hating each other while the real threats are laughing at how poor and how stupid, petty, and ridiculous do you think rich powerful men Give a **** what god another rich man prays to, or if and when He chooses to have *** who he bends Over and rams? Cuz really ...in truth Sexuality is irrelevant in this case Cuz we’re all about to get ******* but what the hell do I know? True. I’m just a self righteous dude with words but one day we’re gonna be like caged parrots who look up at other birds Who fly free in the sky and pity them for not having their own little space like they do not recognizing freedom, thinking his cage is a home
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Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 7:14 PM UTC
A Caged Bird
We sacrifice what’s valuable for less Than it accrues in interest on your debt Which will only double like the puddles When tears from struggles and regret Come to collect your self respect if our soul was fashionable you can bet Most people would strangle the life from it, just to wear it around their neck under the impression our possessions worth the Misdirection from stressin including the Indiscretions collectiin Like it’s infection is a blessin Ignoring what’s left in its lessons like imperfections are progression Lack of investment in self affection leaves us detesting our Reflection Masking insecurities with our ******** women with make up, no exemption Our projected Self imagerys Placed above our spiritual growth, causin is the tension The Self hatred, suicide, depression We forgot who we were impressin our vanity is insanity, and its calamity is savagery but these obsessions are Useless as thoughts and prayers Or Facebook profile pics with frames Showing support for tragic Terrorist attacks, or mass shootings that aim at the innocent, but the truth is Most don’t care, as much as they buzz They do it to feel better about doing nothing, when even donating blood, is doing more that fake Facebook posts Of useless sympathy could ever It’s just condescending well wishes from fake ******* we all must endeavour As if were all eating each other’s ******** Putting on fake fronts for other fakes like a masquerade for assholes,to dress like **** heads, for other ******* snakes and it’s hilarious, but also nefarious, just like your local politician who’s poisonous like physicians, sellin big pharmas drugs wit prescriptions causing opioid epidemic, addiction but cognitive dissonance is positioned So whistle blowing, the little knowing is labelled conspiracy theory so vision Is lost when brainwash takes intuition leaving thought useless like tuition why invest in an education system when our own government ****** isn’t societys becoming economical prison but we just allow the constant piracy too self indulgent to protect our rights to protest and fight, so our privacy Like freedom of speech, gone entirely before anyone starts their ******* too distracted by issues for division media creating bias’ on our television Instigating prevention of unity risen til our power in numbers gives immunity strategically calculated, and predicated on us inadvertently granting impunity to the rich and powerful when brutally is gun smoke, and cut throat lunacy expressed in attitude to our neighbours, how can strangers have a community? narrow minded views cause collision sexuality, race, and gender, opinions arguing over the illusion of equality ignoring quality, still we argue religion and beliefs, that make us see difference Instead of what’s common, our positions On protecting our family, our jobs, the fundamentals in the life we are livin too blind to see any of it clearly Most of our control we lost when ignored busy hating each other while the real threats are laughing at how poor and how stupid, petty, and ridiculous do you think rich powerful men Give a **** what god another rich man prays to, or if and when He chooses to have *** who he bends Over and rams? Cuz really ...in truth Sexuality is irrelevant in this case Cuz we’re all about to get ******* but what the hell do I know? True. I’m just a self righteous dude with words but one day we’re gonna be like caged parrots who look up at other birds Who fly free in the sky and pity them for not having their own little space like they do not recognizing freedom, thinking his cage is a home
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knowledgegonzalez
Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 7:14 PM UTC
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