We are bold to tumble into rigid paths in search of the uncharted,

Gaining truths from those that departed,

Yet painting a new life like an artist. 

Why do our hearts remain so guarded?

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Bombarded by decisions that temper the heart with burden,

We are thwarted from reaching our personal garden,

A life of unfulfilled dreams drowned in bourbon, 

Too far gone to be pardoned.

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To carry the weight of crushed promises.

Set adrift in a sea of debt and policies, 

Born of wolves hiding in the shadow of false democracy.

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Where the prominent mingles in fallacy,

The suppressed bear accuracy.

For ignored they are beneath their majesty.

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Effaced for the sake of vanity, 

It was all just strategy to shape a country worth imagining. 

Bound with the scarlet ink of tragedy,

Ever conquered by brutality.

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From birth everything learned is another’s fantasy.

Join the herd and repeat it rapidly before those callous hands join forgotten agonies.

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In ignorance we stand selfishly,

Afraid of each other’s complexity,

Believing neighbors to be a potential enemy,

Instead of allies twined by destiny.

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Trapped in a zoo of conformity,

Blinded by our jailer’s indoctrinated community,

For the sake of security,

We lose Identity,

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Calmed by pleasure to counteract the urge of mutiny.

All for one, and none for unity.

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For isolated we become with age,

Dreary in our conventional cage,

Squawking about a fixed wage,

Counting our days backstage,

Ignoring the change we should engage.