by suzannah scanlon | |
Published on: May 10, 2006 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Look at us What have we become? What have they done to us? What have we let them do? We are herded Like sheep Into what we know is wrong But do not care Our mouths Zipped shut No truth escapes these lips Just lies Created by the faceless Our eyes Shut tight Sewn with stitches Reality never reaches these pupils Just the dream world We wished we lived in Our hands Have lost touch with the earth They now Hold only Our possessions Materialistic things That never mattered anyway Our minds Are locked The key Has been hung Where we dare not seek: The truth Please Release your body From the web Holding it down Understand What has come to pass Do something Be worth the dirt you’ll soon Be buried in « return. |