pop's poetry

Category: Society

  • A New Mantra

    They all lie
    Right
    Left
    They all lie
    Even when the truth sounds better
    Even when there’s no reason
    They all lie

    When I was a kid
    The one thing that started a fistfight
    Was calling someone a liar
    Now it’s hyperbole
    Now it’s normal
    Now it’s spin
    Even when the truth sounds better
    Our country is drowning in lies
    Flooding the world
    Watching how quickly
    Our democracy has degraded

    They all lie
    Them
    Us
    They all lie
    Even when the truth sounds better
    Even when no one is watching
    They all lie

    Now that I’m old
    The one thing I value most is truth
    Which is a rare commodity
    To be treasured
    To be protected
    To be loved
    Especially when the truth makes us better
    In a country full of despair
    Don’t listen to the lies
    Turn up, tune out, drop in
    On someone you love

    Be Present, Be Kind, Be Truth, Be Peace
    Be Present, Be Kind, Be Truth, Be Peace
    Be Present, Be Kind, Be Truth, Be Peace
    Say it with me

  • seeing in the dark

    I long to be just like one of them,
    those few amazing people
    who, when faced with the darkest night
    can still see a far-away light
    though impossibly
    dim


    I yearn to, like them, believe
    that though my eyes be weak
    I can somehow know there is a light
    even in the darkest moment
    and in that knowing
    see

  • MN

    MN

    We can’t keep on living
    Like something deep isn’t happening
    It’s time to open our eyes
    To the steep slope in front of us
    Pulled by lies toward an abyss
    By the ties to our misguided politics
    That blind us to the truth
    And bind us from action
    It only takes silence to comply
    And ignore the violence so obvious
    How can we make a difference here
    And refuse the insolence I see
    From an idiot wanna be king
    And his court jesters of gonna be killers
    Time for Minnesota to stand up
    Denying the quota of dead bodies
    To the jack boot criminals
    With hack and shoot ambitions
    The guard, police and citizens unite
    To chase the denizens of hell called ICE
    Out of their beautiful state
    Through dutiful embrace
    Of state’s rights that carry weight
    Before they bury one more mother or nurse
    We stand shoulder to shoulder with you Minnesota
    And support the bolder and bolder action you take

  • class war

    class war

    The oligarchs have the masses so focused on the gender, religion and race wars, that most are oblivious to the class war happening which will keep the middle and lower classes poorer and weaker forever as the rich take over our government. It’s time for a revolution which starts with knowing that the problem is not those who don’t look like us or love like us, or those that don’t have faith like ours or family like ours.

    The problem is in the premise that those with the money should have the power. This revolution is not unique. It has been played out for millennia in countries all over the world. Our unique opportunity is that we can see it and stop it before the oligarch takeover is fully complete. We need to stop the division and the rhetoric that fuels it and recognize the lies that are so thick they have cloaked the true path and choked our true voices. Now is the time to walk that true path and regain our true voices.

    To paraphrase Ghandi – Be the revolution you want to see in America.

  • independence lament

    A fool’s flag waves above a broken dream
    Bringing back to life a dried up stream
    Of racist thoughts and hate filled memes
    We thought had gone away

    A class war burns hot in every town
    Families rounded up, taken to the ground
    While we drop our bombs and children drown
    In the blood of those we slay

    The America we used to be
    Was a land of hope and liberty
    With rule of law and justice true
    Our light was bright for all to view
    The America the world now knows
    Is weakened by internal blows
    The fights within our sacred halls
    Have dimmed our light to none at all
    Have dimmed our light to none at all

    We pass racist laws that hurt the poor
    And claim with lies we’ve settled a score
    To regain the land from immigrants abhorred
    Who have no way to fight

    In the White House now there sits a throne
    MAGA traded the Christ for a god of their own
    They bow at the feet of an idol they’ve grown
    To begin the eternal night

    The America we used to be
    Was a land of hope and liberty
    With rule of law and justice true
    Our light was bright for all to view
    The America the world now knows
    Is weakened by internal blows
    The fights within our sacred halls
    Have dimmed our light to none at all
    Have dimmed our light to none at all

    To reclaim the pure day we all must stand
    And reject the cancer that claims our land
    To march for truth and freedom they banned
    For justice we too may bleed

    The fascists must know we will not relent
    Until never again a knee will be bent
    To the oligarch racists that hell has sent
    And we retake our land of the free

    The America we used to be
    Was a land of hope and liberty
    With rule of law and justice true
    Our light was bright for all to view
    The America the world now knows
    Is weakened by internal blows
    The fights within our sacred halls
    Have dimmed our light to none at all
    Have dimmed our light to none at all