Elucidating Questions

They tricked us, you know

All the influential people in history

They preached things like “less is more”

“you have to suffer to be rewarded in death”

Telling everyone beneath them to accept their lot in life

Teaching things like “it’s okay to feel unfulfilled” and “we all question our reason for living”

When they don’t, didn’t, don’t, and didn’t

Forever teaching that pain and suffering are a promise of life

Conflict, is a promise of life

But it doesn’t have to lead to suffering

We made it that way

Life doesn’t have to be like this, and yet we cling to the niceties of men and women who live like royalty

Who have no problems that aren’t self made

People who have so much they would not want for 50 life times

We encourage them to take more and then drag others down when they ask for more

We now live in a world of extortionists and exploiters

There weren’t enough angry people with cause

There weren’t enough people thinking about the children in this world

There weren’t enough people who cared about our planet

I ask how that is possible, while there are 8 billion of us

Is such a small percentage of humanity truly worthy of this world?

Apathy, rage, pain, and joy

Those were the cards shown to me yesterday

I can argue whether it’s apathy or fear but that’s what I’ve got

It’s my fear that if I walk out that door as a one person protest the world would watch

Not join in

I wonder if I’m writing the last testament of humanity

Some other being will find it some day and see what our twilight years as a species were like

Brutal, heartless, apathetic to our dying planet

I wish this was a turning point

A point where the common person stopped accepting struggle as a promise of the Universe

Where we stopped making excuses for the suffering of others

I don’t want to suffer for the pleasure of billionaires anymore.

I didn’t want to when they were just millionaires and then we let them horde 1,000 more