Poem -

Virtual Concentration Camp

Virtual Concentration Camp

We live in 

Virtual Concentration
Camp

Where words
are
erased
before
they
are
written
Accounts
are
banned
to
Twitter's
Interpretation

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Expression
Should Not be limited
to 
a popular thought
or Politically correct
Mandate

Yet today
We live in
a time
where the 
oppressors
are the ones
who claim
to be for
the downtrodden
They Scream
for Tolerance
while censoring
all of those
who think
different
than they 
do

In our World
there is no
questioning
the policies
of wearing
a
mask
or the allowance
of a Walmart
to be open
while forcing
a Mom
and Pop
shop
to 
close

Countless testimonies
and witness accounts
of a corrupted 
election
are banished 
to the public
and declared
baseless 
debunked
conspiracies
Though
they do 
exist

What is real
is fiction
and what is 
not
is truth

Sensationalism
tells the speaker
of the house
to warn a General 
of Nuclear Codes
when realism
tells her
that it is a self serving
political 
impression

We live
among
fools
we live
with those
who rather
read a fairy
tale
than to understand
our Country's History

Sadly 
America
is becoming
the land
of the forgotten
rather
than the land
of the
free

We Allow 
Social Media
to
delete
for our own
good
but consider this
written by CS Lewis:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience

 

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Being Me

Interesting thoughts here Greg! The line is so very, very, very thin isnt it?  x

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author
The fish of the sea

Agreed with Tina! The times we live in... reminds me of some of those dystopian black mirror episodes am I right? ;) smiles and peace to you. Stay safe Greg!

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author
odessaboris

Greg, perhaps you should get together with Robert Keith Packer, the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt wearing deplorable who stepped into history during the January 6 seditious coup attempt. You guys can have a couple of beers and talk about concentration camps. Virtual and real. Maybe co-author some truly shitty poetry.

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