No one seems to be straight
Sincerity is a long-gone trait

Why employees’ elbow grease
Is being abused with an increase

Labor is value, labor is sweat
Labor is the workers’ bayonet

After a moment of introspection
They stopped fooling themselves
First time free of self-deception
Majority missed the lying halves

For nations nothing is more suicidal
Than being ignorant, aimless and idle

Numbness causes failure in critical thinking
First and last condition of smooth sinking

Two words: Popular and fast makes you oblivious
Needless consumption only works up pretentiousness

Enough with ******* around. Try changing for a change
For it may be the only way out of this gaudy cage

They don’t love you anyway. You’re absolutely jilted
That’s OK. You're not a bird, even the cage is gilded

I must be stupid
For not only not getting why
Authorities don’t print
And give the money away
Until not one soul’s left poor on earth

But also, not figuring out why
All the nations of the world
Are working their ***** off
Yet the only good thing in their lives
Is the increasing amount of good debt

Explain it to me without getting
Too technical with me, to look wise
Before this money thing
Brings about humanity’s demise

If I had to choose
Between the two
To make friends
Without pretense
I’d go for Forrest Gump
Over Donald J. Trump

Healing
And
Feeling
Are mostly
The same thing

Look at me
Your eyes will see
How strong I am
Talk to me
Your ears will see
How wise I am
Feel me
Your heart will see
How concerned I am
Touch me
Your hands will see
How frightened I am

Optics II

Look at me
Your eyes will see a strong guy
Talk to me
Your ears will see a wise guy
Feel me
Your heart will see a concerned guy
Touch me
Your hands will see a frightened guy
After all, I’m alright I guess
Just like anybody else

When it comes to ego, I suppose
I can’t bruise mine and can’t **** yours
Some kind of auto-protection is on
Just the way 2021 should be designed

To keep progressing
On the good things
Is a good thing, I admit
And we totally need it
On the other hand
My beloved friend
What if we learn
How to unlearn
The bad things
Wars, greed, lying…
That alone is nothing less
Than the biggest progress

By the time mind knows better
Body has already slowed down
It must be the cost of getting wiser
Them wrinkles on the natural gown

Sixty-four thousand eight hundred US Dollars
Is the GDP per capita in the strongest country
A fair distribution among white and blue collars
Still attracts neither government, nor gentry

One more lousy time sweetheart
The Elite will kick both our *****
For the chosen ones the fine arts
Look much worthier than the masses

Hello folks, my name is Labyrinth
And you are as numb as an alcoholic
Let me give you the rundown
You’ll see how you’re a boozehound
All that hunger, poverty
Injustice and inequality
Whether or not you admit
Your silence is the hand in it
Hypocrisy, corruption
Racism, overpopulation
Global warming, agriculture
Too many to digest? Yeah sure!
Tyranny, nuclear weapons
I know, **** just happens
These are just to name a few
Matters you turn a deaf ear to
Too lazy to get involved
Busy being dissolved
My name, folks, is still Labyrinth
Sober 19 years going for twentieth
The reason why you are stuck
Is because you’re an ignorant ****
Caught in the headlights, rabbit?  
Or is lack of reaction an old habit?
Much more to say to your face
Nothing to say. You are a disgrace

humankind is weird
acting sort of like parrots
no one wants to hear
the truth, busy chasing carrots

It was ten to five
Looked at his father’s new wife
Grabbed the knife
Soon was the time for dining
Still madly yearning
To become at least something
Approved by his father’s new wife
A new wife meant a newer strife
Yet he was ready to strive
It was now five to five
Stopped playing with the knife
After playing with the life
Of the brown thing called rye bread
Before he reduced it to a sliced dead
With heavy thoughts in his head

Voluntary delirium
Incessant drunkenness
One sided equilibrium
Sort of unconsciousness

Losing self
With little bit of trance
To the other half
Unknown in advance

Intentional insanity
Culminating in ******
Free of charge ecstasy
Subject to high tax

Total madness
Mostly unanswered
Almost sadness
%100 standard

If none of the above
Then it is not love

I don’t at all mean to limit
People, but if you think about it
Having more than one kid on purpose
Turns the whole world into a sad circus
Then complaining about inadequacy
Of anything is now a big hypocrisy
Let’s take a look, what’s missing
In the midst of all noises and hissing
Clean water, fresh air, enough food
Jobs and education, both good
An intact healthcare system
And much more, but I don’t wanna list’em
This is not a matter of whether you are resilient
You know better than this. We’ll soon hit ten billion
More than one kid simply means
Population will have no decrease
Do not scatter them sperms around
Your kids will suffer too. That’s not profound
You probably hate me for saying all of the above
It’s not about me, it’s about the ones you love
From me to you, one last call out
Please do care for a timely pull out

Thales, Aristotle, Plato
Hume, Nietzsche, Rousseau
Da Vinci, Pasteur, Newton
Einstein, Curie, Edison,

Mother Teresa or Yousafzai
Dante, Shakespeare and Rumi
Gandhi, Mandela, Jefferson
Ataturk, Churchill, Washington

Orwell, Freud, Aquinas
Hugo, Dostoyevsky and Marx
Lincoln, Martin Luther King
Galilei, Copernicus and Darwin,

And thousands of more names
Names with the righteous aims
Contributed the most to humanity
Suffering a great deal with dignity

If a poor-fellow, on the other hand
An honest believer, I understand
A Buddhist, Jew, Muslim or Christian
Or member of any other religion

Really thinks going to the same heaven
With the above ladies and gentlemen
By just breathing day in and day out
And thinking it’s enough to be devout

He either got the wrong impression
Or have a problem with discretion
Or else he must be thinking that
Judgment of God is fairly bad

I think there is a way out of this
Find what your true mission is
I know it’s neither money nor chair
A hint: Help, teach, devote and share

Complete it with sincerity
Caress your soul with integrity
Afterwards, even if there is no God
Trust me, you’ll still be on the safe side

They might at least put your name on
A suchlike poem written by someone
Otherwise you’re just a passerby
Producing nitrogen for both soil and sky

The delivery guy’s at the door
Must’ve brought what I ordered, or
Maybe this time a virus along with it
An attempted ******, so legit
The New Normal is at the least
The freaking ghost at the feast
It is still up to me. Totally my call
Opening the door, not knowing at all
Whether it is the death waiting outside
Or just the milk delivered where I reside

Diminishing sincerity
******* polarity
Excessive irrationality
Abundance in disparity
Ever-increasing barbarity
Fading income inequality
His, her or your vanity
Addiction to popularity
Translates to peculiarity
Governmental irregularity
A lot of corruptibility
Destitute of quality
Surplus of insensitivity
Lack of responsibility
Never ending animosity
Disengaging actuality
Too much sexuality
Accelerating obesity
Elites: Malicious fraternity
Utter contemptibility
All about profitability
Causing instability
What a pity
And!!!!
True solidarity
Complete clarity
A lot of integrity
Quite some serenity
Stronger immunity
Back to respectability
Definite profundity
Old-school verity
And impeccability
Absolute race equality
Mutual generosity
Much less paucity
None of docility
Financial security
Fixing credibility
Growing authenticity
Waning negligibility
No images, real identity
A little conventionality
Maybe some spirituality
For sure, intrepidity
Equal opportunity
Lasting prosperity
Happier humanity
With fine dexterity
All necessity
If not!!!
Inevitable scarcity
Impossible maintainability
Increasing immorality
Spreading brutality
Thus illegality
Sheer inequality
Additional vulnerability
Air and nature impurity
Much less inhabitability
A separating community
Everything’s overcapacity
Additional promiscuity
With less heterosexuality
Way more criminality
Presumably more oddity
Leads to inexplicability
Rising radioactivity
Unstoppable ferocity
Along with hostility
Political den of iniquity
All that potentiality
On the verge of criticality
Oh boy, a poor posterity
More than a possibility
Around the vicinity
Shame on complicity
The End!!!

Unless you start to read, think,
And read again, and think more
That long-awaited awakening
Will never knock on your door

Alright now! Let me get this straight
Before I make any further comments
It’s never for you and it’s never great
What they plan and/or recommend

Represented by the two smarties
The-most-advanced democracy
Provides you with only two parties
One hell of a job by aristocracy

Such a narrow diversification
Arranged with utmost diligence
Is getting voted for certification
For ever-increasing indigence

Either The Donkey or The Elephant
Meekly pick your side and move on
Real issues? Always almost irrelevant
In this open-air probation you’re on

Enron, dot-com crash or nine/eleven
Or housing crisis and Lehman Brothers
Corona killed millions, already in heaven
More is yet to come, plenty of others

There’s much to be said for this charade
You are always off-guard and unready
And too lazy, stupid, weak and afraid
To change any of this to the contrary

All abused openly, not even stealthy
There’s neither shame in this nor propriety
Democracy is certainly good and healthy
Only if it represents the real society

I have two questions for you
One in the beginning, one in the end
Sometimes you feel that the most
If not the only certain thing in this life
Is the death, right?
Yet, you keep pretending that it is not
Better yet, you keep pretending that
Your little, stupid possessions
Appetites, imaginations
Plans, expectations
Wishes and even hallucinations
Are more concrete, more real, more certain
Than anything else, including the death
Now comes my second question
Why only sometimes?

Artificial Intelligence, I assume, is not
About androids conquering the world
I will get back to this a little later, but
Let’s first clear what became blurred

You’ve grown into a person very receptive
To every single signal Onliners propose
As if internet is holding you captive
And it doesn’t even occur to you to oppose

Writing comments and pressing “send”
Makes you believe you’re the “Mr. Action”
What you don’t get on the other hand
It’s actually nothing but total distraction

It’s like shackles or addictive drugs
Can’t get rid of it, like a bad hoodoo
You need LIKES more than you need HUGS
Besides, you need them right away, too

Swiping and clicking. New forms of caresses
A heart is less needed than a mobile device
It is the real you that a screen replaces
A sad way of saying it clear and concise

Romance is easy now, revenge is cheap
In the realm of emojis and icons
Emotions are at the bottom of the heap
A synthetic world that is, virtually nylon

It’s been, I’m afraid, taking you forever to see
Happiness and log-in names are now good neighbors
Yes, love is in the air, I suppose I don’t disagree
Or in the deep ocean, running through cables

Online friendships are inhumanly careless
Ignorance is a habit now, better get used to it
As long as here and there you can get wireless
That’s the new oxygen or blood, taken for granted

Robot’s skinning you alive is a naive fantasy
You’re eating your own flesh. What a decadence.
It’s getting worse than this volunteer fallacy
Everything’s artificial, why not intelligence

The fantasy however, will turn into a nightmare
If digital life becomes a more routine policy
Labyrinth’s warning you with the utmost care
You’re making the A.I. a self-fulfilling prophecy