Animal Empire

Clemens called us the lowest of beasts and I think he was right.

in every corner of this
godforsaken rock
wrong has been executed
under every brandished banner
high in the 6000 skies
ignorance crime is well alive
and the people are
barely breathing
in the name of every
god prophet incarnation
blood has spilt &
slithered through the streets
preaching
xenophobic hatred
social norm slavery
turning a sheepish cheek
and blindfolded salvation
immortality does NOT run cheap &
immorality is free for your taking
so
I guess
we're
being heathens then
reason & rationality
bravely faced extinction
thinking -sadly- didn't come
as naturally as breathing
& kindred of every nationality
bore no clear distinction
every face was erased
by shame & pride & fear of
the light and dark alike
so they kept their eyes hidden
til word got out
about a new crucifixion
& still only came around
for the ooh girl no you didn't
yes I did
I was there & I saw &
I'm right & you're wrong

...the cycle is sickening

and the syrens were singing
but no one bothered to listen
so they started screaming
hallelujah revolution
viva six six six
alert the troops
there over yonder
in the omnious red mist
thought pollution looms
we should be very very afraid of this
we don't even know what this is
but it may try to rape our kids so
tear off its limbs and kill it with bricks
what is a double standard
it's called self defense
the threat was not evident
but was surely imminent and
that's the damn fine end of it
cause the things we don't accept as
a shiny badge of merit or
honorable stigmata
we tend to not
even wanna acknowledge
&the s**t we don't acknowledge
it just becomes forgotten
we don't stop to ponder
where we went wrong or
what it was we missed

-collectively-

we can't accept it,
won't acknowledge it,
so we'll just pretend it don't exist.

Author's Note

Jesus Christ on a cracker, the news is depressing.

Reviews

[Mayank]

It's like angry metal song, I see how these words make more sense than anything out there written in books...

[The Twin Arenas]

good you wrote this. it's good that writers here are weighing in, or acknowledging s**t other than themselves, or are trying to find some sort of way to relate themselves to it.

i'm always for what you're putting down. a good voice. can't wait to see what you do with it.

the news is really depressing. it's insane. it's always depressing, but right now it's capital D pressing.