Are words worthless?
What are our words even worth any more? It seems, though words abound, our fund of knowledge has grown poor What's in store for we who see the script has most tongues firmly gripped? It seems the scales which weigh the Truth and lies have toward the latter tipped And thus we've slipped as a collective into lives of lies projective And all of this is clear to see when one gains insight retrospective Best reflective of the state of all humanity Our public discourse has replaced respect with sheer profanity What a calamity in the midst of which we find ourselves grasping at straws Because no matter what we do or say, liars will write our laws And so it seems it matters not if we align with a good cause For nothing that is uttered can give this machine reason to pause These flaws of ours which time reveals are those our leaders' words conceal And thus they steal their way in to convictions which none can appeal Though real, justice is just dismissed as that which only wealth permits And thus the wheel of suffering revolves as we all help to turn it Burn it all, or let the pyre grow, it makes no difference, fast or slow We go together gently as a species into our death throes As though we do not have the wits amongst us to know who's our foe We'll see the beast within mankind emerge as crops refuse to grow And so the show begins, the three ring circus of the end As heads in sand pretend to lend a hand, we set the stage for a finale grand So striking bands of workers yearn for more than what they earn And thus we slowly learn what happens when investments don't return To CEO's who know the Earth is doomed, it matters not Because we've bought and then consumed their narratives, we've thus assumed The yoke of those who cloak their motives in a masquerade called 'news' This tool has choked the minds of those they blind with clever ruse Thus due to a poor fund of knowledge, we indebt our children for attending college And then we must apologize for trying to become more than a pawn As slowly it dawns on the daughters and sons of a nation holding them under the gun There is no way by education that your freedom can be won What was saught as enlightenment becomes being but disillusioned And most of what is "taught" causes misunderstanding, and confusion Meanwhile in delusion schools reward rich children with profusion And governments reward their parents with liquid asset infusions As systems fail we bail out those who sail yachts bigger than our homes And sinking feelings grip the throats of those who see our fate in tomes In which the tales are told of times of empires, which fall and rise It's clear to see in history wherein we fall, it's like the tides And so what we see on the rise is cost of living, to no surprise And hopefully we won't see the 1930's soon reprised Cleverly disguised as technologically devised salvation Billions of souls depend on abundant food systems which produce starvation When prodded by pressures beyond their control Systems respond by exacting a toll And lives are all that the poor have to supply Because that's all that's left when a nation runs dry So if you wonder why some people get to choose who lives or dies Know it's that a cycle of denial fuels the world of lies And what this world produces is the system I've above described And every single one of us this system's products have imbibed We've thus inscribed a history of lies with such prolificity It's a pity more of us can't be more witty, what we write could be so pretty But nonetheless it's beautiful to see that in some way we all confess By what we profess in the process which we've made in to a contest To be the best person that you can, let go of desire to control the great plan There's a clan of folk of whom I've spoken, and these people have broken the laws of all lands These are those whose hands all seek to grip the Earth as if it were but contraband But those who seek to have what is not theirs all end up grasping sand