Shattered lives.

With disingenuous rhetoric that assuages voters fears,
leaders of men are borne out of society's frustration,
fulfilling the naive electorate of their desire to be governed,
carrying on with heedless lives and a strange P.O.T.U.S infatuation.

Innocence becomes tainted and men become radicalized,
killers running down streets and in lands unheard of,
propagandized by political media and religious authority, killing men, women and children,
they know nothing of universal love.

Men put on costumes and kill people of a different color,
just following orders and fighting for freedom and democracy,
bombs in the desert, people blown apart at a million dollars a head,
soldiers on the ground appeasing military/industrial bureaucracy.

Xenophobia and racism have a public voice and a flag,
democracy and freedom, buzzwords of selfish and ignorant patriots,
Christians preach love on Sunday and glorify death on Monday,
peaceful demonstrations on the streets turn into deathly riots.

The people police themselves and have become willing citizens of self induced manipulation,
a kind of mass Stockholm Syndrome for the patriotic citizens of so called free countries,
defending their leaders selfish decisions while wanting a share of the spoils of war,
the founding fathers must be turning in their graves as selfish greed has withered a once great nation.

Self absorbed suits on the hill determining lives and futures,
safe in their ivory towers and positions of imagined power,
put these policy makers on the front line and watch them cower,
and those cowards in uniform who murder and slaughter from behind computers.

Faceless men in the shadows orchestrate their agenda thru their chosen leader,
puppet masters and policy makers free from liability and accountability,
narcissists and psychotics echoing a voice of the non-elected and unseen,
the hoi polloi are regarded as expendable and a financial liability.

For every new leader a boogeyman comes out to scare,
leaders of the governed make promises to keep them safe,
slowly eroding rights and tightening up national borders,
spending trillions on warfare and hardly a dime on welfare.

Covetous leaders look to expand their temporary empires of artificial riches,
armed to the teeth military murder unarmed innocents abroad,
destroying histories and cultures and centuries old ways of life,
as favored cartels move in, with emphasis on profit, using slave bitches.

Children made orphans and wives made widows by far off decisions,
the enlightened ones break it down as people killing people,
a general or a warlord has got to be a king of his small patch of grass,
while the apathetic watch the carnage safely in front of their televisions.

Political and religious words echo in the minds of the patriotic and faithful,
empty promises made with a smile that satiate and calm the masses,
the wise and the skeptical see thru disingenuous rhetoric with clarity,
watching them on soap boxes and pulpits, they should be shameful.

We now live in a society that openly assails the critical and free minded intellectual,
people hiding behind their comforting lies and crying like a baby over inconvenient truths,
political correctness and the nanny state providing a tit to suckle,
millennials despise being labeled or judged and to be recognized as asexual.

The world is divided by nefarious political parties promoting freedom and choice,
setting up media outlets to emphasize their disapproval of the opposing parties stance,
while behind closed doors of power and influence, prostituted bedfellows fuck the world,
slowly suffocating the rights of the people who still believe they are truly free and have a voice.