(“Utopia and Terror Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)
The Age of Terror
It’s a new reign of terror
With demon hit squads roaming the earth
To lurk on roof tops, hedges
And parking lots for their attack
While cowardly anonymous callers SWAT
The unsuspecting next in line.
All the time the voice boxes
With their silent protest paddles
And bullhorns call for mayhem and murder,
Blood in the streets
And resistance in the name of democracy,
All for their deranged minions to do.
As they do nothing but double down
On their insider trading
Planning on the day
When they’ll be back in the seat of power
Back driving the economy off the cliff
And their adversaries into gulags.
This is the age of terror
Where nowhere or one is safe,
Where the Death Cult's agenda of greater good
Includes the sacrifice of you and me
By the billions
In the name of order, security, peace and freedom.
This is where we are today.
Are you terrified yet?
Or are you laughing at their desperation,
As the morning tide continues to rise, lifting all boats
Destroying all
Their castles made of sand.
(3/12/25)
history repeats
state of gullibility
blind eyes walk away
© Harry J Horsman 2022
We are the people, did you know,
Better be ready, do feel it so.
But, to keep you accurate to, you!
We live in a human world;
Where sin is thick, judgments clouded;
In a world that's full of hate;
The people were shouting.
People are boasting about themselves:
In prideful ways, they'll soon regret;
The things they've said in their vanity.
Racial slurs are happening everywhere:
We as people cannot move forward;
Because we lost to our hast;
Such sorrow to see this happening in despair.
Who gives the right for such arrogance to bear:
I know of one, which soon will be here;
Please give it a guess, then wait and see.
I see people for who they are:
They have but one color in my eyes;
That's the color of love, for all to reside.
Our times now find us to this:
New World Order, a dictatorship;
They want their citizens to bow to them.
But, to the contrary:
I bow to no one, but One;
Our Father in Heaven, and I love Him so.
‘WORLD IN ORDER WE KNEW'
Helpless Humans / Animals - Americans
Useless Illusion ; Self-Deceit?
...
HURTING ALL.
Either admit defeat!
Or stand
before the fall.
Never has our world been
so awfully Stained.
Putting trust into government is,
Completely insane!
Our leaders? Deceptive!, Poison-feeders
We're ranched for cheap labor. SLAUGHTERED
Forced worship, in fraudulent saviors.
(politics = nonsense)
Bureaucratic
********!
Trapped within a legal fence?
ARSON OF
REVOLUTION!
THE FIRE IS NOW LIT!
By J.R. Thornton 11-18-08
Being filtered through this narrow tunnel
Area is closing but they keep forcing
Screening and sifting all the free thoughts
out
Mindless zombies wondering the rest of
the way
Poking and prodding they weed them out
to a lower count
Tag and bag those who don't survive
Sterilize the rest so they may not bare
seed
Chip them and track them like beasts in
the wild
They were warned many times that this
time would come
Now its to late and they can't take it back
Lost the freedoms of those in the past
fought so hard for
Drones over head watch your every move
Now those with the money makes all the
rules
They tell you how to eat and what to wear
The sad part is most don't even care
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