Endangered

Birthed into a world
where sanity is complacent numbness
Birthed into a world
where life, freedom, and innocence
is too expensive for the masses
Born into humanity
that has forgotten itself
a generation of weak hands
losing grip of instinct
losing grip of feeling
losing grip of morality
losing touch
letting go.
to reach for the god that does not answer them
to reach for the next drink
the next pill
the next product
and most of all more money
A television screen is a parent
which we depend on to watch our children
and cry afoul when they learn too much from it
Educating our adolescent
only enough to depend on a society
that may not even be there when they grow up
teaching them to follow jesters as kings
a false throne
The youngest and brightest sent to die
for the old and greedy
Where a bright colorful lure is waved in front of their eyes
where true patriotism is terrorism
where the many are separated, and the few are strong
where people are simply commodities
where the self-thinkers are outcasts
where the opinionated are slandered
A virus, infecting all elements of mother earth
a dying organism ravaging its immune system.

Born into a world, that I was counted out of,
before I could make the choice to resign.