The star of the party scene
holding court center stage
Moving from topic to topic
like a graceful ballerina
Always knows what to say
with the perfect tinge of humor
A true small talk artist
this chit chat virtuoso
Making conversation on the fly
The computation is complex
for we of the tongue tied majority
forever struggling
to figure out what to say next
We got hit again yesterday
A scene of major blood and gore
Monsters with sick political agendas
hammering home their twisted points
Why can’t these idiots play the long game
and see that terror is a sure fire failure
The world will never rally to their cause
In fact the opposite occurs
Their message gets blurred
Lost in a crimson red backlash
Emboldened enemies counterattack
Good people will be repulsed
Terrorists become outcasts
Now we have to hunt them down
Pay them back with authority
Send in the drone missiles
Blow them away with technology
Collateral damage is inevitable
This is war after all
Survivors hop on the violence cycle
The well traveled path of bloody revenge
We’re all riding a road to destruction
Bracing ourselves for the next hit
Living in perpetual fear
is just not the way to live
A sharp stick in the eye for an eye
Bringing tears to the world
Here in gulag gray
enemies of the state
get harsh mind control treatment
every day
The hard guards
in control
seek to break
prisoner bodies and souls
with creative tortures
of their own devices
Never underestimate
the cruelty
man can dispense
on his fellow man
Inhumanity so easily rationalized away
War is Hell after all
and the desired ends
justify the bloody means
"Better them than us"
cry the America First
snarling super patriots
Invoking the age old ignorance
while the cycle
of rationalized violence
rolls on and on
Maybe tis really
our hemorrhaging values
strapped to the torture table
as we devolve
into the oppressive ideology
we use to fight wars against
Video window
blares the news
in HIGH DEFINITION
Grave images
rolling in
like a tsunami
on steroids
Pain of the world
International tragedy show
Day and night
the heartbreak
is relentless
It makes one question
the very
existence
of God
when we see
so much
dysfunction
in his lame creation
God is love?
God is perfect?
Where's the proof?
Maybe this
is one
of them
mystery
queries
with no
definitive answer?
Maybe God
has a plan
we were never
meant to
understand
or maybe...
we were
simply a rough draft
the almighty
tossed in the trash can
I am
too easily influenced
by random stimuli
that penetrates my eyes
like an unwanted guest
who won't ever seem to leave
I am
the target audience
of late night shysters
offering slick solutions
to my persistent life problems
for the bargain price
of $19.99
(shipping fees not included)
I am
dropped from the litter
of the tribe of bastard children
born from the snarling bitch
soulless economists
classify as rampant
mindless consumerism
now spilled over
into the modern electorate
i am
part of the rotting remnants
that was the body politic
so easily manipulated
by nerdy data miners
who anticipate our every need
after they plant the thought seeds
to be future focus group harvested
i am
a soldier in the zombie army
the snarling majority
coming to overwhelm
and conquer what's left
of the feeble resistance
who still consider themselves
free thinkers
seeking to defend
democratic traditions of the past
those once noble concepts
that could not last
An honest to God religious zealot
of a mutual acquaintance
preached that if I did not embrace fully
and accept unconditionally
the divinity of Jesus Christ
Hell's fires awaited me when I died
I told this man of a conservative mindset
that JC's godly lineage will forever be a mystery
His divine super powers are irrelevant anyway
for the words that comprised his core philosophy
really need not be validated with tales of divinity
Tis his message of loving EVERYONE
across the spectrum of humanity
in this rainbow patchwork quilt of diversityhas always resonated with me
Even sinners as so perceived
by the rules of traditional society
were embraced by this revolutionary
many today celebrate as the messiah
These convictions got him executed eventually
by narrow minded Pharisees who could not understand
that the message of love and tolerance preached
by this humble unassuming man
were not a threat to their sacred status quo
So I asked my homophobic holier than thou friend
of a scripture quoting conservative Christian bent
if eternal damnation would be the post death fate
of all those who today refuse to embrace
the divisive non inclusive culture of hate
that crucifies those who do not toe the line
as set forth by strictly interpreted biblical confines?
My pious homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist friend
offered me up their condescending prayers for my soul
I said thanks for putting in a good word for me
with your distorted version of the almighty
but I think I'll take my final judgment chances
solely based on how I treated my fellow humans
