A Poet’s Press Release
Do you choose greed, power? Wealth? Sin?
To live in Misfortune?
Or do you choose pure selflessness? … to be so in tune with oneself that you are able to differentiate between want & need, between right & wrong, love and hate.
Do you sacrifice or surrender? Seize all opportunity, or destroy all hope?
When our vision becomes masked,
And our brain becomes robotic from the food they are feeding us that we are no longer allowed to think for ourselves…
We have been wired and rewired… According to plan…
Programmed like a television to be stored for your pleasure.
Then is when we begin to realize, this is THEIR picture.
Posing as the protectors, but really deceiving us, and we’re just moments from their prosecution.
Inconsiderate of OUR picture. The American picture. The bigger picture.
We yearn for freedom, peace, love.
A safe place.
That’s the real American Dream.
My mind begins racing with anxiety as I’m trying to find a way out of this cult we have become. The cult this power has created. I’m just trying to survive another day.
Correction: fighting.
I’m fighting to survive another day.
Like I’m dressed in camo and war paint. Constantly on edge and ready to defend. Ready to defend my rights, my freedom, my body.
I will not be your robot or live in your Lab, I will not be another trial to be prosecuted, My vision will not be masked.
So, turn off that television. Put on your glasses if you must. But listen very carefully…
Are you “woke” now?
Hear me out.
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Written on December 20, 2021
Submitted by esdani11 on January 29, 2022
Modified on April 23, 2023
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