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Last Remnant of Our Capitalist Dreams

I serve as a missing link between A world of liberal dreams And conservative lifestyles I am a remnant of a life Of owning cars and taking a wife And spend my days organizing files She embraces all a millennial's roles Too poor to fill the air with coal Or think about popping out a child She represents everything I lust How she's so lazy she rusts A life so far away from wild And everyone else I love's the same The last remnants of the American Dream Drown ourselves in drugs and memes To fight against the ancient tide Yet I walk along the same old path Swathed in the arms of historical wrath As they both yell for me to pick a side Our history is filled with hate Where they'd kill and segregate And claim the rich are better suited I was raised with that toxic dream To hit the top and reign supreme While the dregs all rioted and looted Now everyone I've come to know Raised the curtains on this show And showed me the world how it looks naked Freaks, labeled as such because they bleed Depressed and waiting to be freed From the capitalist world they hated I want to see the world grasping hands The last remnant of an American Dream Hand in hand; a life supreme Subjugated by class wars Teachers pruning out curiosity The death of what has made me me No one's gonna make it through these doors America is falling down Because the old men grasp their crowns So let me pull the plug on their daydreams Wash away the suffering Bring on a world where we are one No more 1% or left or right Eliminate the need to fight Everything will end when we realize we are one.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Book: Shattered Sighs