I have begun to forget my mask
I have started longing to be open about my dissent
from new normal
I am not a pawn to progress political agendas
and power struggles
Just a person longing for the rights & freedoms &
peace of her parents
Was divorce a prediction of politicians’
same social strategies?
Yelling, arguing toward dominion
never peace
If we remove the masks we hide behind &
relent our ruthless blaming
Can we find another way,
more loving, to behave?
For the first time in history
We have lost daily danger
Robots doing most arduous work
Steadfast protection from perceived external threats
So we no longer fight to live
Turning our choices over to untrained professionals
Motivated by momentary monetary gains
Unhappy lacking distraction in still moments
We interchanged dogmas
So we can scoff at virtue, instead
Worshipping power and profit strawmen
Spiritual faith exchanged for political cocksucking
We are no longer compelled to fix ourselves
We are machinery now repairable with medication
Our bodies broken before birth
Necessitating genetic modification
We manipulate nature’s randomness
We have erased beauty because man perceives
Chaos where nature reigns pure and cyclical
Revealing the path we walk now is narrow
Not spacious and hopeful and bright
It is difficult to admit
to being the victim
of biological warfare
It is difficult to admit
to being violated
by those you have never met
It is easy to wish
for an absence of vulnerability
in times of relentless ignorance
where an elusive truth
escapes all who reach for it
eviscerated in smoke and mirrors
It is easy to blame
the people in front of us
for the games the elite play
It is difficult to be
serf, prey, and plaything
for those who vie for our extinction
It is difficult to admit
we freely offer our futures to those
who will celebrate our destruction.
So much for lock downs
Gone are the days when
Doing your part
Was staying at h♡me
Now to do your part
Is to submit your autonomy
To rulers intent on
Achieving numbers
Improving economy dependent on
Temporary numbers
To secure an insecure future
What will come next?
I cannot say
But someone should
Depose to dissent
If only to capture
At least one other perspective
Though there should be
Perhaps millions expressed
Hegemony or survival?
So funny now
After a year of blaming one thing
We should now so easily
Find a cause of death
Inconclusive
The Halfwit Writer