Do You Know?

Do you know what makes me want to cry?
Do you know what crumples my gut into a paper ball?
Nationalism, Incompetence, Homophobia, Classism, Racism, Sexism, Television, Corruption, War, Capitalism, Fear.
Meat.
Apathy.
The killings of millions.
Facades.
And these- oh so necessary- skyscrapers.
I just can’t stand the “need” for more, more, more,
Without the slightest thought of any implications that utterly destroy other’s lives!
Yet this just hardly skims the surface.

I hate these solutions; I hate these causes,
These necessary evils and these hot topics.
I hate faith in government,
And faith in God,
And faith that everything is “just fine.”

I loathe the agricultural and industrial revolutions,
Just as much as I dislike narcissism, A.D.H.D. and your sick highs:
Such as hunting, ecotourism, plush animals, advertizing and college drinking parties.
I simply cannot stand the quest for order, the need to classify, the need to know,
And all that qualifies a civilized and developed society.

Give me one good reason for why we must progress,
And why we need to know,
And why we must destroy, demonize and belittle nature.
And for that I hate your trends.
I hate your cities.
I hate your Gods.
I hate your hypocrisy!
I just hate, I hate, I hate and I hate.

So do you know?
Do you know what wrenches my heart?
Do you know what destroys my hope?
Do you know what is stabbing me in the back?
Well… Did you listen?

Reviews

[Jenny Davis]

I think "it's you" isn't necessary to add to this piece as the rest of the words really speak to "Us" or them as it were...this is a tremendous piece of writing...I was nodding my head all along to every word...you are truly a gifted, aware, intelligent writer...this is amazing and I for one agree and applaud :)
Thanks so much for entering this in the Vent Radio Contest, I would absolutely LOVE you to read this on the air!

[Blake Q Hatfield]

Definately a lot of anger in this piece. This somewhat reminds me of the Living Colour song "Type."

[KGV]

:) I listened. Love it.

[L.G. Knight]

Very expressive....nicely done! Thanks for entering this in the "Drop it like it's hot" contest.... it is deffinatly hot!

~Frances~

[Travis Lawrence]

I feel the same way many times, just wanting to reject everything around me, all sociological things anyway. It can be plain nonsense!

[Christopher 'Windstorm'..]

damn! this has so many levels that i don't know where to begin. but it is an easy read and well thought out, did you write it while you were angry?

[Zephyr]

i thought this was a good rant. my only suggestion: make the font bigger, if you could. i found it kind of hard to read.

[Courtney Peters]

This is pretty good
I've felt the same way before
I'm also a vegetarian
I hate it when people hurt animals
I hate pollution
And war, politics, religion..

Anyway, good job :)