Listen
As it robs you of your youth:
Tears shed
Blood smeared
But why?
Ostentatious, inanimate objects
Acclaimed that brings shame
For those who think sane
Brings you to a masqueraded zenith
Only to attempt to strive for
Something that will be no more
They put it on your agenda
Make you want to surrender
All of your values
To achieve a new phantom
That you didn't want
But it's too late
Philos
Has been replaced by
Eros
Which has been promoted by
Them who use it
Unscrupulously
As propoganda to influence
Those who are ingenuous
To social issues
It is multiplying
By the many
Who are dying
Unnecessary deaths
Deaths of the oppressed
For so many years
That it brings previous generations to tears
When they wished
That the headline such as this
Was just a horrific dream:
"BLACK MAN GUNNED DOWN AT THE AGE OF 15"
-June 2, 2009-
