Suction Cup

Suction Cup                              4/19/2016

The tube is in my mouth

And with it
I am fed

Grown fat and soft

Dumb and dead.

We Lap it up

And then

We swallow it down

Trained like a dog

To eat and drool. 

We who live in fear

Know that it doesn’t pay

When the truth is forbidden

And authenticity a crime.

Time goes by

And we look back

In anger

Staring at the past

Full of lies. 

We did not know

And what we did

Was all a lie

Used and abused

Wasted and blind. 

The good became evil

And evil became good

Nothing but anesthesia

For the trusting

And the good. 

The masses were murdered

And millions sacrificed

Misled heroes

Courageous for nothing. 

I also

Did not know

And now I wonder

What all else

Is buried

In the past. 

The tentacles grow

And reach in every crack

Tightening with every breath

To suffocate and kill.

Boneless and bloodless

The evil creeping death

Conceived and nurtured

In the hearts

Of evil men. 

See it now

Clutch and strangle

Exposed in the sun

For all to see.