Everybody knows

I awoke pissed off today. Then my Poet of music Leonard Cohen set me off to describe my emotion.

                
                 
                  
                   (I borrow a few lines from Leonard Cohen.
                        Sometime we need to learn emotion and feelings
                        from people who lived a long life.)



                                    "Everybody knows"


Mr. President.

Did you see the gas prices?
Poor people making minimum wage won't be giving lunch money
to their kids.
Will be eating ramen noodles for lunch at work.
Must decide to fill gas tank or pay bills.

"Poor cities in the USA are getting the left over."
Do you give a s**t?
The bloody rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Gas companies made biggest profit the past year ever by sucking the last dollar and hope
from the people. The oil company sells us the oil they bought six months or more ago at highest price they can get and no-one cares..

Where are you Mr. President?

"Was the fight already fixed."
We have a rich man president?

Everybody knows.

House representatives. 435 men and woman.

I saw your budget.
1.1 billion for food and office.
2.3 million per representative to live on.

How many people have nothing in your states?
How many people are homeless?
Are the schools teaching the future of the USA properly?
Do you walk your streets and see the pain?

No equality in the USA yet.
Babies being born in the poor cities.
With one foot in the grave at the beginning.

Wars are being fought.
No-one  knows why we are fighting anymore?

Contractors got 465 billion dollars and cost of war over a trillion.
The rich man knows why.
Poor man born to serve at eighteen.
Hell of a world!
When going to war is better then to swim in the waste and s**t.


Senate.

I won't waste words on them.
I hear "here or there of them."
A group of useless people serving their needs.


       I pray
I pray to the sky, the water and the earth.
Sent wisdom to the men in-charge.
Please insure all children have food in their belly.
Please lord of life and earth.
Insure all children have a warm bed to sleep in.
Please lord.
Give opportunity and strength to the people in need.
We need a miracle.
War and hate is controlling my world.
Please sent some Angels of love and peace to assist.
We could use them today.
                             Thank you 
   
I awoke with fear.
I fear for tomorrow.
What will our children have left?
What have we done?
I hated my father for doing nothing.
Now am I any better?
I believe I did less.
Will my children despise me for doing nothing.

It is time to yell.
Write to the leaders. All of them.
Demonstrate in the streets.
Gas prices will be $4.00 a gallon.
Poor man will pay for the greed of the rich man controlling the USA.

             Everybody knows.

Does anyone care?

                             Coyote

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Author's Note

I borrow a few lines from Cohen. In the old days words could change the world. Today money and oil controlled the world. It is time we all give a shit about our world. What will you tell your children when they ask. Why are people homeless and the world so hard?

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

Leonard is the soul of the human conscience~you couldn't have picked anyone better to open the wound from which your own pain flowed~
this is the world~ there are the few at the top of the madness perpetrating atrocious crimes against humanity~perhaps not on perceived grand levels of physical torture~ but one more insidious~ the wreckage of the human mind and the human soul~ they love to break the spine and create flexible consumers~ more and more are becoming aware of the manipulation and less and less are tolerating the injustices wrought by the greedy little control freaks~ sad to observe that here in this country we have elected them~believing/aching to believe every promise of hope and change when in the end "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"~ your poem is a call to becoming conscious HUMANE BEINGS again~ bravo~

[ShaneBerry]

in the old days words did mean something, but sadly today the higher ups just nod,everyone in office, forever and ever, from bush Sr. to Obama, they are all the same bobble head on a different body. a revolution, or a complete social reform is what we would need for a possible change, but even that would only be temporary, because the way the world works now, the one with the most cash is the one who gets to make the choices. great write, incredible depth, and true honest feelings are expressed here

[pheasant]

let the truth be known, my friend... great job here bringing many situations to light
Praying is an excellent form of actually doing something... I know prayers to be much more powerful than many may think, and I think we should definitely keep our prayers focused on the solutions we'd like to see in the world. You set an example here... a powerful one!

[ForTheWorld]

the words are so strong, you're opening the eyes of the public to the real states of awareness, i love the message =D

[Cynthia]

I think no matter where we live or should I say everywhere have this same problem? Yeah, it does, the wold is getting unfair that money and oil and things we think is valuable controls this world, it's destroying us, cause now we are becoming the servant of money and oil and lots of other things, its really stupid. If I need to answer my children, I will tell them people nowadays changes, its no pass world, it all changes to money based ideas, and we got to do something, stand up against them, tell them how do we feel, we just got to stop it.

I love the way you brought up so many major problems nowadays in a poem!
Amazing!

[Poetic Beauty]

You describe these problems that the common man face quite well and the decisions that have to be made. I can't tell you how many time I have had to think about how much I am going to drive when the gas prices raise this high.

[OT]

powerful sentiments which I do agree with too!! well expressed, the hubristic and selfish nature our kind! a politically motivated write! well written!

[Mark]

I like the Leonard Cohen reference

[xjust-for-me.x]

a great write. and no matter where you the same problems excist. can a few words change the world maybe then again maybe not...but if enough ppl use their words maybe but dont count it....the world is controlled with money and oil and ran by men who dont care for the poor or disabled or joe public. the men who run the world would rather have war and distruction than peace.

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Great poem! I agree with you every inch of the way!

[KAREN]

Yeah I care, but all I know to do is pray like you. This world will NEVER be what it used to be until our Lord Jesus Christ comes to get all his born again children to take home to be with him! POWERFUl poem!
100/100