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In My Present Absence

In my present absence
I’m trying to remember where I misplaced the key
To unlock the door to my own existence

I rise with the smelting icecaps
Only to come crashing down with the rising levels of pollution
So I’m stuck in my red thinking cap 

Things that make my radiator boil! 
We’re driving to the end of the world, faster and faster?
With all that exhausts this oil

And you thrive on cancer...
You’re what you eat, what you smoke and as for the drink,
I won’t interfere with your larger

Am I just a filter...?
Of ignorance and misinformation...a consumer of advertisements?
Then only fit for litter

So there’s no avoiding this junk
It’s in the air, the water and every street pole we pass
And I’m just an ignorant punk

I was relaxing in the park
And I witnessed hands exchange contraband on the merry-go-round
Our own children doing something so dark 

For all my jogging I breathe in lead
Poisoning my suburban home - now part of the inner city decay, how?
‘cause that’s the BS I’m fed


01-08-2015
Thabang Jan Ngoma

Sponsor: Roy Jerden
Contest Name: Everyone Poops

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