When Idiots Speak

no doubt darker take on race in America - open mind required

  

I grew up in a school where I could count the

Number of Asians on one hand

Where the difference in skin was quickly pointed out to me

So I would know what to expect.

 

And I hate stereotypes because sometimes they are true sometimes

They surprise you as people fall into place

Only because that’s what others assume.

 

I shake free my suburban shame and

Comb the cities for a lower beat

One the fits my bones and hums under my skin so

I can pretend to be darker than I am.

 

 

Who the hell am I kidding

Trying to play the diplomat when I have never

Stepped outside my country – I claim to give a damn

But if I really cared I’d be over there,

Sweating it out with signs and giving my blood

For what I know is right.

 

Soldiers may not be popular in some eyes, but to me they are heroes,

Men and women who give up their daily woes and battle it out

With their morals as they protect what we are too blind to see

 

And damn, look at them go, dropping like flies while America kills

Itself in drive bys and gang fights and insists on stereotypes to mark out

Who we can and cannot trust

 

What’s the rush where are you going what

Sights are you trying to avoid,

And honestly – why can’t I come?

 

Who says I wanted to be this person, have these eyes or see these things and damn,

It’s hard to be the only idiot standing up.

Author's Note

be brutal - it's heathy

Reviews

[A.r. Bazian]

well... probably coz i'm an anarchist, i dont actually believe in the necessity of war, unless its to take back what belonged to you!
so no, i dont think soldiers are heroes, though i admit their courage, but i also support the theory saying... they are moppets, in the hands of a tyrannic government trying to occupy half the world for no reason while if we live all under god and anarchism there wouldn't be need for money, countries, or war!
coz then nobody would have to pay for anything anymore, and no country would go worrying about its economy, coz economy does not exist!
i mean nuclear weapons, and weapons of mass destruction, what the hell is that for? annihilation!
so no... i dont respect soldiers, i think every soldier should fight his government first to secure an actual state of peace under a just umbrella, called society! if no1 is in need then only the ill will kill, then, there would be hospitals for that! so no, f**k the army, fight for your own land, dont go fighting for things you dont own or know!
sorry, nothing personal, but, i mean... its war! soldiers are war machines, cavalry mules!
i mean we should know the truth... if what ur seeing justifies war, and your so-called protecting beliefs then its wrong. acts against nations, ethnicity, religion, for the sakes of oil, economy, and politics ... who's fighting for that?
the army... i just hate the idea of that! sorry!
u said be brutal... no offense! its just not right to defend an unrighteous case!
its the same the world supporting israel, why dont you ask and demand the hidden documents to be declared?
why dont you?
army sux... soldiers need intellectuality and need a good set of reason and logical tools instilled deep inside... that way they'll know right from wrong!
i'm talking about each and every single army unit in the world, this wasn't against anybody/nation in particular!

[Ruby Moon]

hahahah....
"...and damn,
It's hard to be the only idiot standing up."
but i think by standing up you already proved that you are no idoit
^-^