Choke

Choke  8/28/2013

We sit at artificial desks

With artificial positions

Working in buildings

With artificial light. 

Told what to think

And how much we are worth

Without regard to character

Or intelligence.

Something’s you can’t see

But you can definitely feel

Like the colorless odorless mist

Killing your brain

One cell at a time. 

Suffocating your dreams

And crushing your spirit

With heartless and mindless control

Over everything we do.

Forced to pretend

That everything is fair

When you have always known

That it’s not

And never will be. 

We talk more than we do

And we give, just to get

Duplicating the same mistakes

Over and over again.

Like a monster

With tentacles everywhere

Seeking more and more

To manipulate and ruin.

All for a lie

The biggest lie of all

And all out of hatred

Cold, dark, and cruel. 

I have seen it many times

And nothing will ever change

Not without the truth

And sacrifice. 

The dance with death

Is slow and painful

And our partner does nothing

But remind us

That we to, will surely die.

We distract ourselves

With amusements

Shallow and thin

While the world around us burns

Just inches away.

It doesn’t help to worry

And it doesn’t help to cry

But desperation is deadly

And just what he wants. 

The plague is here

Because it never left

But was only hiding in the shadows

Until the temperature was right.

Macabre images appear in clouds

And inside our hearts

Our passion grows cold

Growing dimmer and dimmer

Every single day. 

Pray for me

As I pray for you

Against all the odds

That we shall survive

And still believe.