I may have slown down just enough to realize that Ive been moving too fast
failing
much like the land itself
at an attempt to move at the same clip as everybody else
yet killing myself trying to fulfill
the bullshit american dream crap Ive been force-fed my entire life
about working constantly faster, harder, stronger
for more, bigger, quicker, better
just one particular brand of crazy
but not the only, best, or most just
cause the world is bigger than US
and if Im honest about it some of it is better than US too
I feel it so much I cant shake the dirty feeling of waste
the safe echo of midnight boot heels down an urban street
weekend neighbors on the train, open beer bottle in one hand, rail ticket in the other
and I weep for home but not because Im ready to go back
but because of the lies
the tall tales that scream superiority
while swaddling our children in abandonment
our elders in neglect
and our soldiers in excuses
imagined supremacy decided over afternoon tea
disputing the feasibility of council from both God and conscious
rule after ridiculous rule
the faithlessness my country has
in being
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