American Dream, Hollywood Fable *language*

[Max]

With haste, I awaken from my dormancy
To grant this clouded sky some clarity
To open your narrow eyes so that you may see
The demons that are raping you and me
They are those who would justify genocide
So long as they have large rocks on their rings
With a wave and a smile they say “we’re on your side”
When in truth they are oil sultans and plastic kings
I say smash the doomsday clock early, they are out of time
Let’s help these fallen angels earn their charred wings

Freedom is just a word

Kill or be killed, it’s the way of the Earth
Always has been, since the dawn of human birth
While continents starve, the fat cats increase in girth
21st century Lords who commandeer subservient serfs
Capitalism runs rampant and unchecked
You and I just get scraps from the table
But it’s not too late for reason just yet
This country is certainly capable
To climb to the top of this mountain of debt
And see the American Dream as a Hollywood Fable

It kills to be naive

Never will I shut my mouth
Until everyone has health care
Never will I stop searching
Until transparencies are laid bare
Freedom for few means nothing
Without true equality
If this country f---s itself
Won't you follow me
In exodus?

[carousal]

Well in my younger years I was slightly to the left of Che Guevara and havn’t changed much, maybe mellowed a touch over the years.Capitalism rests on the vast underbelly of the working classes, without their exploitation it couldn’t exist. In short its appeal is to the greed that’s lies in most of us, a ladder to the top with the first five rungs missing.

Keep in there pitching friend.

[Harklight]

This write says a lot Max, more than at first glance. Good rhyme and thought flow keep it rolling along. Last stanza could protest more for the starving, homeless, desperate, etc but overall, you took me there, especially in first two stanzas and italicised lines. Keep shouting, my friend. H x

[apocalypticjay]

Excellent Max, words of a deeply movinf poet who believes in a revolution to make the changes in todays societies for the better, if we can see such wrongs what are the powers that be seeing? Only the colour of money, shameless they are tempted by the fruit of eden for the fate of the working class heroes. Brilliant Max many would follow you my brother me and mine too.