i watched the burning bush

on the "me and them" network

and realized that it was not a sign

nor was the bush burning

it was america incinerating

all precepts that we hold dear

tossed in an endless pit

of heaps of rotting corpses

disinfected with pretty lies of euphemisms

to cover what once was... is

the act of a nation gone mad

with lack of compassion

and preaching to others nations

"there is no 'i' in team"

while under a hypocritical breath mumbling

"but there is an 'm' and 'e'"

how are we to tell our children

to leave the land the way you've found it

when newly bombed cities stand as monuments

to our belief in god

(a god of war and destruction)

a green god with faces of

former slave owners

who could afford the duplicitous

li(f)e of enslaved freedom

they are not yet even born

and their hands have been soiled

with the blood of our tyranny

and the deaths of countless lives

screaming from their graves

for a kinder and gentler nation

we would just assume and send our children

off to war to make examples of the world

but if they came for our cats and dogs

there would be an out cry of inhumane treatment

that the world has never heard

were is the out cry for all the lives lost

were is the out cry for the human cost

we once knew that the way to freedom

grew on the north side of the tree

sons and daughters lay still

in endless fields of apathy

burning

and they are not yet born.

 

iamakilika

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