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Personal Favorites So much finger-pointing
the vitriol stings
spreads as disease
when such unconscionable prejudice breathes
Do we not all understand
wisdom and empathy is the root of all success
within our grasp?
All the bigotry, the elitism, sexism, racism
acts of blaming everybody but ourselves
are all the rage
since active mouths fill the front page
and getting 'yours'
or getting 'even'
before they get theirs
perpetuates a cutthroat ladder of pain
a minimal gain of incremental mental wage
a maximal moral disdain and cretinous fiber relay
and a slime
festering ooze seeping from the pores
coaxing breatren to believe again and again
that victory is defined
by the differences outlined
between 'us' and 'them'
Don't believe the hype
don't enable needless strife
find the noble people in all walks of life
and unite
boom
you've hit the nail on the head. this has gone on for centuries, Christ talked about it, buddha talked about it, plato talked about it, karl marx talked about it, yet here we are. i personally think it's always going to be part of the human condition, and that maybe it's some sort of test to separate the wheat from the chaff. i will do my best not to go alond with status quo, to not lust after plastic sports cars and to not value possessions over my fellow man. most of my fellow man, however, doesn't know God in the same way i do and i can't really blame him for his desperate struggle to get what's "his."
Polarized
I am often spoken at and not to. Unity is defined by affiliation, blood, or money acquisition. Me-ism fades when basic needs are not available. Revolution starts with absence of stuff.
Now pardon me as I build this
Now pardon me as I build this monolithic divide
Please smile deeply, and take agony in stride
Don't resist our methods or brace for attack, swords drawn, hilted
or we'll just recommend another pill
that'll mask the symptoms
and compound the problems
of the downtrodden ways of the jilted
Aliened
Knots, rope or twine,
rubber bans, twist-ties,
belts, glue, paste, stakes,
or ribbon, these are things
that bind.
All we need now
is the humanistic
practice of these
items.
~allets~