The evils of the government
Are pretty much bottomless
Yet people still submit their lives
And worship of their confidants
Trained to fear the world
Rolling armies out in prominence
Conjuring up wars
That they expedite with confidence
All caution to the err
Dropping bombs upon the slaves
Another third world
Reconstructed to a grave
Another resource
Let us carry on for days
With the illusion of a threat
You're guaranteed the people's praise
Oh, hallelujah
Flesh melting from their corpses
Their children turned to ash
Please send in the reinforcements
Broadcast that there is danger
And just fabricate the sources
No need to end a war
When you're flooded with endorsements
And if the foreign land’s exhausted
We'll just increase the population
Of the people of the prisons
That refuse the be our patrons
And everyone applauds
Whose hearts hold ignorance and hatred
And everyone's enthralled
By televised assassination
It's been a while since the holocaust
Maybe time to script a sequel
Let socialism run amuck
And sacrifice its people
They've submitted to the government
And that act has made them regal
The worthless toys and joys of tyranny
And now it's time to burn cathedrals
Nothing held sacred
In the rule of the State
No religious act more glorified
Then unrestrictive hate
Keeping life in constant tension
As a means to easily create
Division in the populous
That leads to segregate
With so many factions battling
Uncivil wars waging
Basing their beliefs
Based on the media's staging
Propaganda flooding minds
Deceptive yet engaging
Raising the vile and destructive
To contention and raging
Changing the multitudes
Adapting into legions
Drawing unity through violence
While society weakens
While society bleeds and
Ignores all of reason
For all humanity is lost
While evil has allegiance
© GaratheDen
© HeartOfBabel
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Garathe Den (Pseudonym) (
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'It's been a while since the holocaust
Maybe time to script a sequel'
we, who wield words like they're callous - dull, objects
need to be Very careful, my friend
to court catastrophe
even if merely, as 'shock tactics' of worded creativity,
may have consequences
far beyond, our imagination...
yes the images are black n white
yes, maybe it all happened before we were even born
But!
the victims of those atrocities
and their traumatised' children
walk among us, daily
read our words, daily
suffer ptsd breakdowns, daily
and so:
let's, be kinder
let's be more mindful
let's, not trigger their Pain and suffering unnecessarily, Please...
(forgive my tangent, dear Poet
I meant no disrespect)
The bigger issue at hand is that it doesn’t trigger pain, trauma or a grief to those who merely read it as a historical lesson, these atrocities. That, for many, their hearts are so far disconnected from empathy that they register absolutely no dismay what-so-ever. That’s where the true shock and trauma ought to have come from, that evil does in fact have allegiance, quite often.
I will also say this, if you have read any of my words within this piece as being cheap, dull or calloused, rather than in a very sharp and piercing and very real and deliberate and impassioned address, that is on you, not me. I think caution about talking about serious matters is far too often merely for those who have a disinterest in the subject matter, those who are inconvenienced by that which they have no love in their heart to even care about. And those types of people aren’t worth catering to. Society needs to learn how to be aware of issues on a grand scale, rather than pussyfooting around problems unless it serves for a political benefit.
Thanks for taking the time to read this piece and for sharing your thoughts. I personally appreciate it.
Each to their own I guess.
I personally know far too little, to assume
what society does or doesn't need, but
I also see theirs a huge majority
that desperately need a wake up call
as they traverse life, thumb scrolling up n down
their 'digital cookies, customised' propaganda
of a pixelated reality
that's being curated for them, by some random stranger...
so, Yes I understand your perspective.
Still, I can't help shuddering
when I think someone reads the quote I highlighted
and it brings back their repressed traumas....
Thanks for engaging and not taking my rude words
in a negative light.
Always a wonderful surprise
to engage with an open minded individual,
a true rarity of modernity...
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