"Treacherous Mirrors"

Sometimes, I look in the mirror,
I see things,
Dreams fading away,
Forlorn, forgotten;
For the elites.

When I was young,
I was a big dreamer;
I dreamt big things;
I dreamt of paradise.

When I look into this mirror,
I see fractured images,
A lost child in a world of hate.
Someone who dreamt better,
Bigger things than this world,
Could ever handle by itself.

This child no longer -
Sees those dreams,
Instead, the inner child,
Is very angry at the conditions.

When I dream about -
The conditions,
I see many things.
Fractured dreams;
Within a desolate reality.

Some of them will,
Never come true.
Some of them will,
Burn to the ground.
Some of them will,
Obliterate us.

Yet I still dream on.

These mirrors -
Are cracked and torn,
Lost images of inner children.

Are shown to those of us -
Seeing our own reflections.

Children angry at the conditions,
Children unsure about the future,
Children fighting over money,
Children killing each other...

Brainwashed into hatred.

Conditioned to their liking,
The children act out.
They keep fighting each other,
Until there is nothing left.

Cracked, broken mirrors,
Broken dreams, eternally lost -
Forever blown apart for death.

The cycle of life and death,
Is a beautiful yet sad tale.

The cycle of life and death -
Is supposed to be a natural cycle -
Not a forged, forced cycle,
Of blistering terrible horror stories.

The occupation makes life hell,
For anyone who does not fit,
Their description of a human being.

Bombing, shredding and destroying
Everything they touch.

Everything has to come to an end,
At some point, this is true;

But forced endings are never ever happy,
Instead they're full of sadness and woes -
They're full of pain and desperation.

Unlike most happy endings,
Where it's all whitewashed,
For a certain demographic...

Washed of history and abstained
From true harrowing tales,
Certain people have
Washed their hands,
That are tainted with blood.

Absolved from true history,
And hidden from view -
Watching us like caged animals,
Sheltered from the abnormalities.