Posts Tagged consumerism

Cold War.

Dragged under water,

Crushed in the vice.

The files of Giles Corey

Has been brought back to life.

It’s the same these days,

With everyone.

The strings are tightened to the max

And we carry each other’s bombs.

It’s a cold war,

All the time.

Too many of us,

Wish to die.

The world has put it’s weight upon all our backs

And the pressures of modern life

Don’t allow us to relax.

The tyranny of the clock is seen,

When the flowers within in spite.

The train of vitality is moving too fast,

And for some, it’s endlessly night.

We long to ride the waves of serenity,

But the sirens of distraction

Won’t stop screaming.

Losing all sense of hope,

We’re losing all sense of feeling.

Fuel is coming in faster,

Than it can be used.

Pollution’s imperialism

Wrecks our atmosphere,

The worlds takes our abuse.

When the notes fly across the score,

Faster than can be played,

It seems the tunnel is never ending,

And we won’t see the light of day.

It’s a cold war, all the time.

It’s a cold war, all the time.

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Community is nonexistent

The incredulous people of ubiquity
No where to be found
Skeptics, lying dead in doorways
Making not a sound

Everywhere, omnipresent, the citizens sit in shame
What has become of community?
Life is shallow and vain.

Mindless depressed searchers
Seek to find happiness
They look in packaged plastics
They look inside myth books

They watch the eye that stares at them
Through the TV screen
That tells them what they have to buy
Tells them they’re unique
Unique mass-produced garbage
Flying through the air
No one cares anymore
Dispose of us and say a prayer

Mindless, manic zombies
Walk the streets at night
Looking for a product
That will make them young and alive

Youth is not achievable by fashion
Only through love and family
Youth awaits the open hearts
Not corporate junk or fabricated history

It makes the world happy
To have time to spare with loved ones
But many trudge off back to work
And come home craving shop-goods.

Value is non-existent.
Poverty is no price to pay.
Cheap presents sit waiting for another owner,
While the company gets away

Long hours, child labour, young teens fill the factories
The pollution pours from the chimneys
No freedom, equality or peace

Money is forgotten.
They have little to survive on
2 dollars a day is not a lot
When you have 5 kids to fend for.
Now try and tell me that’s not wrong.

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What we are

Proselytize me
Indoctrinate me
Make me think uncritically
I will not question Authority

I will not denounce TV
I can’t deduce anything
Dogma, infiltrate my mind

I’m not a human being

I’m metal to be crafted into conscription tools
Weapons of militant kilo-joules
Weld me into a war machine

I’m not a human being

Shape me into servitude
Submission, subjection, subjugation
I’m happy to be sedated.
By government: intoxicated

I’m happy to be pushed around
Happy to be thrown to the ground
I’m happy to be sleep deprived, water-boarded and starved.

For this is who we are.
Compliant, conforming, consumerists.

Potential profits for companies.
Potential dollar signs in corporation’s eyes.
We’re not people. We are a monetary unit.

We are pecuniary cogs in a malfunctioning machine.
We are bricks in a broken wall.
We are cells in a schizophrenic body.

These machines; these bricks; these cells – are a system of corruption. They are this very system, this very society.

I don’t scrutinize what they think I’m worth. I accept that I am worthless, until I have cash to dispense, upon shops and salespeople; to purchase goods with my labour for things I don’t need. For sand that blows away in the wind; for food that rots; for a flicker of temporary light. This is what we are told we need. Things that bring a glimpse of happiness, before a storm of immense depression.

I am not a human being. I am wood that fuels the polluted fire of capitalism.

This is what I am.

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