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Wicked

April 5, 2016
By T_Markson BRONZE, Santa Rosa, California
T_Markson BRONZE, Santa Rosa, California
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I always feel the fire
When I bring the Wicked to Ire
Everyday is a reminder

My emotions are twisted
But I’m not interested
In bearing bad news
So I live with it

It’s frustrating,
Knowing there’s no justice in our world
Hearing that it’s the way it just is

Let us all bear witness
To the crimes of the cruel corporate business

Let us all keep silence
To the crimes of corporate violence

We play into the slave state of consumerism
As the world falls to a fate of corporate fascism

The wealthy and powerful will rob you blind
And make your immigrant neighbor the bad guy

The movement of the Occupy
Has your mind to preoccupy


Who knew that red and blue could make fools of me and you
A blurred political spectrum keeps us from what is true

Conspiracy Theory Alex Jones
Has a message of deceit on which he hones

They shift our focus
From the corporations and the corrupt government
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To secret societies and sacred covenants


The citizens of the United States and the people of the world will only live blind to the global reality for such a long time before the poverty and the daily grind eat into their minds. The diamonds they have mined and the pockets they have lined must come to find that they have pissed off all of humankind.

You’re the fools who still don’t take us as a threat,
You haven’t seen the back of us yet.


The author's comments:

I very much hope that this poem works to concisely explain the problems of our and the corrupt governments that lead much of it. Though I wrote it as a citizen of the United States, it can be applied to much of the world. 

 

My personal favorite part is the section about "red and blue" making feels out of "me and you". This is a line that very much plays into the modern American political reality.


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