Now That You're Free

We could have been friends but you chose to hate The damage is done and now it's too late I can forgive but I cannot forget how you made me feel such fear and regret How could you believe those lies you were told? You gave me no chance Your blood is so cold You doubted my word You painted me black and launched from afar a vicious attack Your bandwagon ride provides all the tools to spread your destruction with liars and fools You don't even know me and yet you conclude that I am a monster a madman unglued This land is awash with hatred and fear foundations are shaky our future unclear And all this insanity you helped to spread are manifestations of what's in your head To reason you're blinded To truth you're opposed and no light can enter a mind that is closed You project onto others from deep down inside the ugliness in you that you try to hide Your actions, more flighty than a great many birds, make lies of your lofty and high-minded words You're quick to condemn and fast to accuse all the poor people you carelessly use to advance your agenda with myopic sight completely convinced that you're in the right And all of the while you're failing to see that you are the cause of your own misery And if you CAN see it your pride is too great to surrender your tantrum of anger and hate And so, in the end when you look around at all of the carnage and blood on the ground Take comfort in thinking that your cause was just though your only motives were power and lust How will you survive in a world all your own with no one to hate so empty, alone? No one to accuse not one you can see Just what is your purpose now that you're free? © Mike Wise 2/9/17