Imitation of Life

How can you stand                         the imitation to Life

the plastic products                  the trophy wife

materials the symbols  of your celebrity

caged in the menagerie                   a heart that is not free

 

Life does not consist                       in property owned

the vultures picnic                   your persona deboned

every single lie does the shill swallow

destroys your life                            the ideology you follow

 

The pillage of planet                        where appetites sink

desolation of humanity            on the very brink

moral cowardess and riotous living pursue

the depth of depravity                     no longer the few

 

We all know we're broken                 but law has no control

where a man does not care     what lives in his soul

it coaxes you with promises to pleasures delight

but has stripped and defiled you       cloaked you in night

 

Fast cars and fast women                 the consumers dream

what cost to the heart             and mind does it bring

the envy of others who in this succeed

every craving satiated                      in its own greed

 

Do those who occupy Wall Street     really want change

or is what they want                the same status to arrange

mans selfish desires  he'd like to justify

in same guise of lies                           under currants their cry                  

 

The glitter of Babylon                        has society attended

where selfish exaltation             over others pretended

when these things are gone what clothes a man

what contribution to life                     where does he stand

 

The trappings of costumes           do become lifted

and the naked display                  where ones soul has drifted

when you strip the disguise what will you find

the motivations that can                     human kind blind

 

Just a small question                           when you rise every day

your life and your choices             will your character display

your speech and your actions come before your judge

what attributes did this                        peer pressure nudge

 

What should move you                        to the truth glorify

the war on your character             seek to defy

to incite those around you  give life your thought

not have the lies                                  your consciousness bought

 

The World has polluted                        our thoughts and our speech

raped planet and humans              by things it does teach

but the dictators that rule planet God intends to impeach

through the kingdom that                      Anointed Jesus did preach 

 

John 15:18  , 17:14

Gal 5:16-24   Col 3:5-10  ITim 6:9-12

IJohn 2:15-17   , 5:19

James 2 , 4:4  

 

COPYRIGHT © 2011 C Michael Miller

Reviews

[TLK]

I wonder if you mean to use a fixed width font, such as Courier. There are spaces between the lines that I suspect are supposed to match up, but they do not.

[PoetryofProvidence]

nope , all the spaces are meant to be there , and allow for transition of thought as well as pacing ....