Chewing On Glass…

Honor thy mother through sins of the father
We say we care, but if we really did this wouldn’t happen
Honor thy father through the sins of the mother
We say this matters, but if it really did it wouldn’t happen
Would it?

People matter, People care
Until it is time for such things
People matter, People care
Until it is time to make a change
Suffer, Suffering
The decision of choice
The idea of choosing
Sheep to the herd
Bow down to the master
Hope for change
For a better view in hell

Honor thy mother through sins of the father
We say we care, but if we really did this wouldn’t happen
Honor thy father through the sins of the mother
We say this matters, but if it really did it wouldn’t happen
Would it?

They matter, They care
Until it is time to advocate for change
They matter, They care
Until it is time to be there
Bought and sold
The reason behind choice
The reason behind choosing
Shepard to the herd
Bow down to the dollar
Promise to change
Only to live in sin

Honor thy mother through sins of the father
We say they don’t, but look around
Honor thy father through the sins of the mother
We say they won’t, but look around

Promises they couldn’t keep
Starving people living in our streets
Companies poisoning our rivers and streams
Taxes collected for abusive needs
We think things are getting better, but for who?
There’s no end to what they’d say to do nothing

So we honor thy mother through sins of the father
And we honor thy father through the sins of the mother
It isn’t generational if it keeps happening

Because people matter, People care
Until it’s time to do anything
Repeat, Repeating
The greed of choice
The lust of choosing
God to the masses
Bowing down to nothing
Dreaming for a change
Living in this all the same
Living through this the same way
Isn’t really a choice we can afford to make
Won’t matter until the end mentality
Isn’t going to bring any value to any of this
At a certain point we are going to have to
Stand for something more than just a flag
United means more than what it’s worth

Pretty political… pretty critical… I try to not bring a lot of this stuff up and if I do… which I do from time to time… I honestly try my best to not tell anyone what they should think… Poems are meant to be read in different ways… and however you read it is fine by me…

This wasn’t meant to be a dig at either side or any one country or group of people… well one group of people I guess… If you count politicians as a group of people… I don’t given that… here where I live they are meant to represent the people of their state and values and whatever…

I don’t know about where you live or about everything going on around in the world… Around here though we’ve got a problem or two or plenty… and we can sit here all day and knit pick who is to blame or what is the right and wrong way to go about something… and we do… but there are a lot of problems… a lot of things that can be fixed that all lead back to money…

Who has the most to burn to get their way… right or wrong… left or right… rich or poor… up or fucking down… the dividing line often comes down to money on either side… comes down to what something is worth… We have a lot of problems… but most of them lead back to basic corruption… It is one thing to say this is what we believe or want or whatever… it’s a whole other thing to find out that people can’t afford medications to live because drug companies need to keep turning a profit… so they pay millions out to get laws passed in their favor over the favor of the people…

And even with that one notation… that isn’t the only paycheck politicians are receiving… we pay them to take money… we choose them to collect more than what they need because we believe that they have our best interests in mind when we do… When they clearly don’t over and over…

Be mad… there is a lot to be mad about… but fuck this left, right, red, blue, rich, poor, gay, straight, man, woman escape goat bull shit they constantly want to pull over our eyes to distract us…

Most of these elected officials don’t give a fuck about any of the shit they say… and that is what pisses me off more than anything else… We may all never agree and that is called life… but these money hungry vultures need to go… need to be kept in line… or live up to the promises they swear to keep… The world is constantly changing and yet we face the same fucking problem at every turn… I don’t have all the answers… Can’t think of a single one side to anything that does… but there has to be a better way…