Imitation of Life

How can you stand                         the imitation to Life
the plastic products                  the trophy wife
materials the symbols  of your celebrity
caged in the menagerie                   a heart that is not free

Life does not consist                       in property owned
the vultures picnic                   your persona dethroned
every single lie does the shill swallow
destroys your life                            the ideology you follow

The pillage of planet                        where appetites sink
desolation of humanity            on the very brink
moral cowardess and riotous living pursue
the depth of depravity                     no longer the few

We all know we’re broken                 but law has no control
where a man does not care     what lives in his soul
it coaxes you with promises to pleasures delight
but has stripped and defiled you       cloaked you in night

Fast cars and fast women                 the consumers dream
what cost to the heart             and mind does it bring
the envy of others who in this succeed
every craving satiated                      in its own greed

Do those who occupy Wall Street     really want change
or is what they want                the same status to arrange
mans selfish desires  he’d like to justify
in same guise of lies                           under currants their cry    
           
The glitter of Babylon                        has society attended
where selfish exaltation             over others pretended
when these things are gone what clothes a man
what contribution to life                     where does he stand

The trappings of costumes           do become lifted
and the naked display                  where ones soul has drifted
when you strip the disguise what will you find
the motivations that can                     human kind blind

Just a small question                           when you rise every day
your life and your choices             will your character display
your speech and your actions come before your judge
what attributes did this                        peer pressure nudge

What should move you                        to the truth glorify
the war on your character             seek to defy
to incite those around you  give life your thought
not have the lies                                  your consciousness bought

The World has polluted                        our thoughts and our speech
raped planet and humans              by things it does teach
but the dictators that rule planet God intends to impeach
through the kingdom that                      Anointed Jesus did preach

John 15:18  , 17:14
Gal 5:16-24   Col 3:5-10  ITim 6:9-12
IJohn 2:15-17   , 5:19
James 2 , 4:4

COPYRIGHT © 2011 C Michael Miller
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Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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