CONTROL





Tear up the ignorance
Remove the fear
Get on with the clean up
The end is near

Began a long time ago
Machines constructed
From ideologies
Relentless power struggle

Mountainous monetary controls
Industry grows and grows
Out of ingenuity
And across the scape it rolls

Great western rat race
Paves over beauty
For piety grinds up
Creativity for mediocrity

Burns youth into soot
Leaving replicas of ash
Superhighways tolled
For cold hard cash

Mirrors reality in skyscrapers
Reflect upon cities of this
Inferno opens and glows
Consuming our souls in bliss

Powers artificial enlightenment
Cement ponds for every home
Appliances of convenience
Hum soft and low

Washes cave wall silhouettes
Allowing us all to think
We are intelligent
For living in this epoch

Tragic flaw of self-awareness
Accumulated knowledge
Documented history as bible
Thumping beliefs as revival
Towards a scientific dirge

Marches blind faith
Alongside ego vows
Never to relent
In search of a covenant
With one's own ignorance
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DBrown Fisher
© Aug 1997

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