1. PROFANELY HOLY

Twisted to a graven image
Two-faced healing and destruction
Morning by morning
Justifications anew

Profanely holy
Predatory glory

How will you save this without
Preserving the same charade
Tend to the wounded
And you feed the predator

Profanely holy
Predatory glory

Hail death
Hail hate
Disguised with love


2. THE WOLVES NO LONGER HAVE TO WEAR SHEEP'S CLOTHING

The wolves no longer
Have to wear sheep’s clothing

Willfully ignorant followers
Spirituality masking
A need for supremacy
Wealth and social control

Sheep with fangs
Hungering for power to grasp
Preserving the privilege
Of the ruling class

Denial, oppression, discrimination,
Deluded means to an end

The right hand supporting death and destruction
With the left hand feigning ignorance

Claiming peace and compassion
The sheep become the wolves


3. SUPREME ENTITLEMENT

Crying over his wonderful life
Raging he's earned a place on the highest court
Insolence to those before him
Unstable, immature to judge

Conspiracy theory partisan
Playing the angry victim
Sympathetic, white, old, men
Salivating for judiciary power

Support a biased agenda
Tolerate petulance and abuse
One priority rings true
Supreme political power at all costs

Mockery of justice
Dumbing down law and order
Partisan pawn
Undermining democracy

Political corruption well-oiled
Innocence decided before hearing
A credible and certain testimony

Truth clumsily, shamelessly, dismissed
After all, what's a nation owed
From cowardly misogynists


4. HIGH PRIESTS: LOW MORALS

Faith on your sleeve
And the surface of your mind
Shallow, lacking depth
Clinging to absolutes

Freely, grace you receive
Freely, judgement you give
Politics, friends, family
Your 'right' to control with finality

You are a stone adorned
In a facade of humility
Oblivious to the truth
Of who, and what, you are

High priests of the modern age
Unmoving in ignorance

To maintain your position
You'll willingly deny
For others, sin is sin
And you're ready to condemn

You either fight to control
instead of heal
Or bastardize your attempts to heal
with control

Pain, suffering,
Destruction--the end result

You are a stone adorned
In a facade of humility
Oblivious to the truth
Of who, and what, you are

High priests of the modern age
Unmoving in ignorance


5. SWAMP TO CESSPOOL

Repugnant, greedy, cretinous,
Traitorous, corrupt, power hungry,
Unqualified, unintelligent, petulant
Criminal, conniving, lying, denying,
Cesspool


6. DISCERNING THE DIABOLIC FROM THE DIVINE

Where
Is the discernment to see
Where roots of your faith
Entangle with roots of hate

Water one; you water the other
Supporting, reinforcing, acts
You don't stand against
But would be ashamed to endorse

What you've chosen
To commit yourself to
Isn't all love
Isn't all good

Where is discernment?
Where is reflection?
Where is contrition?
Where is correction?


7. WHAT'S IN THE BAGS?

Walkman on
Ready to embalm
Working rigor mortis
In my craft I'm flawless

Knock at the door
My job interrupted

Visit in the dead of night
Give me a disrupting fright
Black bags at your side
What is it you've got to hide

Seeking a favor for friendship
Your request seems senseless

You're very buddy-buddy
What's in the bags
Why won't you tell me
What's in the bags

Shaking, writhing these bags are alive
What dark mystery do they hide?
Cats in the bag waiting to be let out?
Maybe sunfish or mechanized chimps?

Writhing inside is the dismembered undead
Unphased by decapitation and a pick axe to the head
Screaming in pain, hunger for brains
Quickly to the furnace incinerate the reanimated

Ashes to atmosphere
Rain toxic upon the earth

Reanimate, reanimate
Reanimate, reanimate

Death transcended
By the undead


8. SPECTACLE OF BLOOD

Slash, bludgeon
Blood flowing
Shocked, stare
Time slowing
Almost stopping
Hearts are racing,
Bodies dropping

What are my choices
Fight, hide, live or die

Hard to keep hold
Of ideology
Survive or die
The moment is upon me

Thrust into a state of 'war'
One can never truly prepare for

Strangling of innocence
A means to a threat
Entertain the privileged
Intimidate the oppressed

Morbid to all who dare
Look it in the face
Palatable as tradition
When played to the base

Justifications - Endless
Creativity is the only boundary
To how far the ruling may go
To maintain their control

I am now in this horrid
Violent nightmare
I cannot purge the screams
Of the dying

And if I live to sleep
They will haunt all my dreams

The sound of death
Is in the air

Hanging like a pall of darkness
Reverberation of a fate I may share

What are my choices
I will not die a pawn

Fight, hide, die, defy


9. NARCISSIST ASSURED DESTRUCTION

Bantering man-child
Playing with lives
Though a majority
Didn't elect him

Speak loudly and swing a big stick
With no restraint

Like a flippant clown
With shoelaces tied together
Incapable of fore
Or even afterthought

Finger on the button
Mouth on the trigger
Not a poke but a kick
To a nuclear threat

Speak loudly and swing a big stick

Cindered bodies ashen shells
To be blown away like leaves
A fate left in the hands
Of the most fragile of egos


10. CREATURE ON THE WING

Forty five tons of metal
Twenty tons of fuel
They said I could do this
That's not how I feel
Tell myself it's okay
Unease setting in
What could go wrong
Suspended 20,000 feet above land

Exits, windows, vision of the wings
Constant reminders that I am not safe
It's locked in now
No escape, no alternatives
I must do this

Wait, what is that
There, on the wing
A man, a creature, a demon
Walking on the wing
There and gone
Before anyone else can see
Muscles tense, sweat drips
It must be happening again

Hallucinations, psychosis
No one will believe me
Keep my eyes shut
Or confront this delusion

There it is again
This is no delusion
Its hideous face
Defies description

Dismissed as paranoia
They try to medicate me
If they won't believe me
I am the only one who can stop this

Sneaking the gun from the holster
Of the sleeping air marshall
Creature standing off the wing
Prying at the plane's engine

Malicious curiosity
Inviting death in totality
Popping open the exit
Reaching out I take the shots

Go ahead, think I'm crazy
But we're safe and I saved us all

I'm not crazy
You will see
I'm not crazy
You will see


11. VOTE NO FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Throwing it all away willingly
Believing the half-truths and propaganda
Seeing through fear for the truth
Isn't worth it to you

You want to keep things the same
You want to stay enchained

You don't care about those who stand at your side
'Sit there, shut up, enjoy the ride'
We're not all pawns and we're not equal
We won't back down we'll usher in upheaval

You don't care about us
It doesn't care about you

There's no shame in uniting
Against what isn't a person
We won't waste our time waiting
The rule of the machine will be subverted


12. NEVER ENOUGH

Starving for position, status, and control
Separating yourself from your humanity
Might as well be true you sold your soul
Making your moves devoid of empathy

More than enough
Never enough

Must possess must repress
Must possess must oppress

Committed to a consuming pursuit
Taking over, eating you from the inside
Decomposing just beneath the surface
You will decay along with your power

Whatever it takes
To increase the profits
Whatever it takes
To line your pockets
Worker, consumer,
'Collateral damage'
Blind them, abuse them
Lose yourself

Where there is greed--peasant or king
There is no song of hope to sing
No resounding victory to proclaim


13. CORPORATE CARE

Cultivate voices
In the voiceless
But if you speak up for yourself
You will be silenced

Empower for self-advocacy
But if you practice
What we want you to teach
You will be crushed and villainized

You're only one of us
Until you're not bowing down far enough


14. SAY GOODBYE

Goodbye to what you never knew
Welcome parade of folly
Goodbye to a semblance of truth
Welcome abundance of lies

You've given up a past
That you couldn't see
Chasing after another
That’s not reality
Illusion of 'great'
Built upon deceit
And narcissism

Hope that if you finally see
Reality still exists
Hope that if you finally hear
The truth still persists

Demonized what’s been in front of you
Welcome to the devil at your door
No clue where you are
Limited insight into where we've been
Blind to where we're headed

Hope that if you finally speak
You still have a voice
Hope that after all is done
You still have choice


15. RECKLESS RESISTANCE

Extreme backlash
Ever deepening descent
Into reckless resistance
This outrage meant to defend
Your stunted beliefs
Has gone beyond conserving
Outdated views
Steeping you deeper in hate

A hate far bolder
Than what you bargained for
This defense so vital
To what you hold as truth
Has stacked illusion
Upon delusion
Building a foundation
Of malice and lies

You are the real threat
Sociopolitical cowards
With a death wish
Clawing for power

Extreme backlash
An ever deepening descent
Ready to use hate,
Bigotry, and fear,
To tear at the threads
Of our society
What hell are you trying
To set us up for?

You are the real threat
Sociopolitical cowards


16. AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM

Rallying divisive citizens
Blind to the larger context
Lying beyond their deepest fears
Of reality and delusion

Vindictive
Brutish
Simple minded
Authoritarian Populism

Unifying suffering minds
Craving an insulating, false order
Bolstering exaggerated fears
A petulant resistance to change

Leading the most angry and afraid
Of our tired, of our poor,
Vulnerable to half-truths
Our huddled masses yearning for blood
Looking for an enemy to lay blame upon
Sending them against each other
Opposing diversity
And all who get in the way

Vindictive
Brutish
Simple minded
Authoritarian Populism

Desperation
Fear
Ushering in
Fascism

The stage has been set
Beyond any one individual
Who would seek to lead
Through authoritarian power
The populous is poisoned
Willing to limit civil liberties
And trample human rights to preserve
Themselves and the status quo

Vindictive
Brutish
Simple minded
Authoritarian Populism


17. YOU DISAGREE OR DO YOU?

Should they feel
Put in their place
When your reasons
For disagreeing
Misunderstand
And misrepresent
What you claim
To disagree with?

Servant of ignorance
Standing so bold
Misinformed opinion
No truth to be told
Rooted in beliefs
Decades, centuries, old
Values incongruent
With what you uphold

Feeling resolute
Feeling justified,
Feeling accomplished,
Striking at the air

Your passion about things
You don't understand
Hasn't put anyone
In their place
But it's shown us
That your place
Is firmly seated
In damaging ignorance


18. HONING STAGNATION

You believe in growth along a linear path
Yet feed your mind with the same old messages

A master of confirmation bias
Mistaking the circular for linear
Thinking challenging your beliefs
Is being hardheaded when challenged

Honing stagnation
Perfecting ignorance

Illusion of growth
A tree that bears hollow fruits
Ready to be cut down
And cast into the fire


19. SOCIAL INJUSTICE WARRIORS

Proudly hateful
Aversion to understanding
Self-righteous cowards
Uniting in fear based aggression


20. EYES AND EARS TO WHAT?

You can read
You don't see
You can hear
You don't listen


21. SOME PEOPLE CAN'T MAKE A JOKE

It used to be that a person could take it
When their joke just wasn't funny
Now it's 'you're too sensitive'
Or 'you think I'm offensive'

Hurt or no hurt
Offensive or not
No one owes you a laugh
For the jokes you make


22. TERRORIST IS YET ANOTHER WORD FOR COWARD

Dominance and lies
Aggression and violence
The tools of cowards
Desperate for control

Weak and fearing a world not conforming
To their fragile wants, beliefs, and gods
Some are ready to escape through death
Too afraid to live this life

The weak, and cowardly, gorging themselves
On their own fears before spreading
Their antiquated fear-driven beliefs
Threatened by equality for all
Attempts to prove power through violence
Showing how truly powerless
They feel and are
Terrorists are no more than cowards
Pawns of fear
And fear-based ideologies

Suicide bombers, bigots, misogynists,
Political and religious extremists,
Mass shooters, faux news media
Cowards spreading their own fears

We must challenge cowardice
Not succumbing to fear with fear
Embracing wisdom and peace
Leaving fear no more space


23. COWARD IS YET ANOTHER WORD FOR HUMAN

Our fears complicate a mandate
To love and respect all
And take a stand against hate
But not each other


24. THERE IS NO GLORY...

In war


25. COMNMUICITAON

Your words are as clear as mud


26. YOU'RE NOT PRO-LIFE

You're not pro-life; you're just pro-birth
Shallow moral supremacist
Throwing the baby out with the bath water
All part of your reckless crusade


27. GLORY IN TRAGEDY IS TRAGIC

Tragedy strikes and you praise god for keeping you safe and alive
What does that mean for those who died?
What does that mean about your god?
Tragedy strikes and you praise god for his will that’s good and divine
How do your delusions comfort their families?
How do your delusions comfort anyone but you?


28. CHEAP RATIONALIZATION OF OBJECTIFICATION

Writing off your ‘lust’ as biological
To absolve you of responsibility

All of the whining
All the complaining
Conveniently blaming
Continually shaming…

Everyone and everything
Except the mind that controls the dick


29. CALLING IT

Call it a night


30. CHAINS OF FEAR

Love and fear
Both the same to you
Failure to grasp
2,000 year old words
You've managed to undo
Any news that was good
By clinging to the old
Strict morality and judgment

Chains of fear
Legitimized
And masked
By false grace

Ever fearing damnation
Perfect love casts out all fear
And has no fear of punishment
Yet you cling to it
Fearing your God, yourself, the world
Making absolutes out of expressions
False belief that humanity
Is wicked to the core

Avoiding education
Avoiding knowledge
Avoiding different thoughts
Avoiding truth

Hiding, secluding
Avoiding reality
For fear of punishment
From a loving God

Freedom looks like chains on you
Fear has bound you down
Freedom looks like chains on you
Fear has bound you down


31. DREAM OUR DREAMS

Dream our Dream
Dream our Dreams

Fantasies and a coat of many colors
Grandiose goals of emptiness
Bought and sold
With the currency of naivety

Chewed up and spit out by reality
An unexpected mundane mediocrity
Ambitions reduced to a granular size
Full potential never realized

Walking their path like a puppet
Dreaming their shallow dreams
Listening to their limited perspectives
Passion bridled and reigned to death

Stranded in the depths of a pit
Completely unaware
Dreaming their dreams
Exploited naivety


32. SETTING THE RECORD CROOKED

Champion of the underdogs
With big dog privileges
Taking a self-righteous stand
Against ‘hypocrisy’
Trying to bridge a gap
Without a bridge to stand on
Trying to criticize
What you know little about

You're in over your head
Attempting the impossible
Judging the 'hypocrisy'
Of what you don't understand

What you're doing isn't respectable
Pretending you're not part of the problem
You're doing more harm than good
Swimming in your sea of delusion


33. FREE (NO MONEY DOWN) SALVATION (PAY LATER)

Is it works?
Is it grace
And works?
Is it grace?

Know-it-all soteriology
Judging others' lives
With 'do's and 'don't's
Who and who 'can't's

Is it works?
Is it grace
And works?
Is it grace?

Your master is religion
Your reward is control
Time to stop pretending
you believe in grace

Is it works?
Is it grace
And works?
Is it grace?


34. PATRIOTIC NATIONALISTS

Patriotic nationalists
Parading and claiming freedom
And justice for all...
Who are like you

One language
One religion
One morality
One way to think

One language
One religion
One morality
One delusion

Buyers of fear-based propaganda
Blind supporters of a stagnant nation
A nation that has little reason
To be proud of your myopic vision of freedom

Seeking to wield and bend the law
To curb the freedoms of others
Preserving your beliefs through selfish distortions
That's your patriotic way

Freedom and justice for all...
Who are like you


35. MORE THAN A VERB

Love is not an empty word
To be carelessly claimed and betrayed
Love is more than a verb
More than going through the motions

Love is far beyond sacrifice
Or an obedience you can act
Love is a belief, love is a perspective
An encapsulating way of life

Not done out of duty,
Obligation, or romance
It presupposes the worth of others
Regardless of status and difference

Does not attack
Is not ignorant of others' suffering
Is not controlling or jealous
Listens openly and understands

Love doesn't just tolerate
Where disagreement occurs
Love accepts disagreements
And maintains respect

Love believes the lives
And opinions of others
Are of value
Simply for being

And all of love begins
With knowing that you yourself
Are valued and Loved
Simply for existing


36. BLESSED ARE

Blessed are those
Who cultivate peace
Blessed are those
Who abhor violence


37. ALL CREATURES

Respect
All creatures
Protect
All creatures


38. NO MONSTERS

You call them monsters
Look closer and see
They're the offspring
Of our society

You would write them off
You would damn and condemn
Rather than heal
And the cycle would continue

No support
For ‘monsters’
No patience
No mercy

Only stigma and punishment
For those who could have just as easily
Been you or me
Had we experienced the same traumas,
Been raised the same,
Born with a different chemical balance,
Or lacking supports

Long before becoming
A cause of suffering
They suffered

Look closer and see
They're the offspring
Of our society
May grace persist


39. MOAR NUKES PLZ

Guns don't kill people.
People kill people.
Inanimate objects don't kill people.
People kill people.
Nuclear weapons don't kill people.
People kill people.

So... when can I get a registered nuke?

Your rights
Are not being erased
A modicum
Of regulation
Is far more reasonable
Than pretending guns are not designed
To harm and kill
Begging us to be responsible


40. C.C.

Holy but not holistic
No compassion for the masses
Selective understanding
Conservative compassion

Rooted in a love of money
And pride in morality
A lens of selfishness
Conservative compassion


41. DOUBLE EDGED CASUALTIES

You want to wield your Bible
Like a literal sword
But that second edge of the blade
Keeps catching your face
You're starting to look unsafe
And no one wants to listen
To your recklessness
No one wants to listen


42. DISGUST ME

Remind me
Of the ways that I never want to be
Remind me
Of the choices I never want to make
Remind me
Of everything that I hate

Motivate me
Inspire me
Disgust me


43. NOT YOUR SAINT

I will not save you


44. THE TONGUE IS TELLING

Subtle and blatant words
All holding significant power
Directing your course like a rudder
Burning like a wildfire

Reflecting deepest beliefs
Reinforcing darkest beliefs

Brilliant words of praise for deity
Insidious scorn for humanity
Spilling blessing and hate
Incongruent and corrupt


45. CLOSED MINDED

Closed minded
You act like a god
Closed minded
You are a pawn

Closed minded
You have no relevance
Closed minded
Where do you belong?