Overanalyze and criticize, demoralize and ostracize
Modern pundits legitimize their vicious exercise
Scrutinize and standardize, compartmentalize and cannibalize
Wizards of efficiency synchronize, initialize and circumcise
Demobilize and paralyze, stigmatize and de-humanize
Westernized pols, their constituents balkanize and polarize
Trivialize and miniaturize, standardize and sterilize
Thought-police priesthoods evangelize and moralize
Why can't they fraternize and socialize?
Why don't they harmonize and compromise?
Entry in Rhyme Battle: Xi Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Juli-Michelle
Somethings are better left unsaid, said the man who with no backbone because he thought expressing how he really felt would disrupt a happy home. And she thought this is what marriage was supposed to be, yet she gives her all and he takes everything I wonder what her perception of a husband & wife used to be, I used to be content but it's never enough, but that's the flesh right, along with power and lust the unjust are justified and say justice was served I guess the jurors committed legally suicide, that's the only way they could let a guilty man walk, problem is the people in a position of power have no heart. Is there anyone out there still trying to put their life in parallel park, we know our role but being westernized kinda influences you to play another part, someone hands you a fist full of dollars and tells you where to start, how to monopolize the world it looks like we're all walking in the dark....night fall arises you already know how this movie plays out we're all committing suicide with these guilty pleasures like Junior Seau
The nights are cold but still the heat is on
mourn for who? Why seek ye the living among the dead
you been fed so why let the hungry starve
everything has a price an arm and a leg is what freedom cost
Laws were meant to be broken by the very men who claim to uphold them the most
America is no democracy it's hypocrisy
has been seen from beyond the seven seas please
spare me the cliche dreams that my country men
strive and work so hard for, to save millions of dollars
that we wont spend, so self righteous and westernized
we don't recognize our own sin, our problems we wish em away
drown em out sorrows and cast them out in some recycling bin
The flesh is tainted, lust is never satisfied
even what you see is far from correct and because we fail to ask why
or look in the mirror we overlook the number one suspect
turn our heads away from domestic genocide
but cry for justice when the victim is black or white
let's have a candle light vigil for those of you who remain quiet
instead of making sure these criminals get indicted
burden of the westernized nuclear family
a need for a keeper of the skeletons
may or may not be sufficient conversation
at the annual reunion of the extended
where advantages of the tribe & like-minded
human groupings of non-western peoples
shine over the gossiping keeper
as s/he weaves a web of half-truths
that have been passed down through the ages
so that no one really knows the family history
because he said-she said mentalities
clog
what could have been a rich telling of
factual tales
which may not have been as talk-showy & sappy
but would nonetheless have been
true.
I'm sick, I'm tired,
I've had enough.....
of "truth" and of lies....
I've been poked, prodded,
tested and bested,
festered, rested,
sequestered, requested,
wester'd, vested,
pestered, wrested....
and once, nearly arrested....
I've been analyzed,
crystallized, mesmerized,
pulverized, traumatized
criticized, idolized,
poked in the eyes,,
I've baked bad pies,
rid of flies,
immortalized, cloisterized,
checked for lies, realized,
utilized, memorized,
fantasized, exercised,
launderized, manipulized,
anesthetized, categorized,
demonized, nebulized,
pulverized, atomized,
vulcanized, deputized,
ionized,vaporized,
westernized, circumcised,
but now I have realized,
I see the world
in different eyes,
than those who call it
a pack of lies,
and if one really tries,
you can see what
a simple word buys,
not a burger and some fries,
but joy, laughter, insight
and possibly cries.
please don't bother to spell-check me,
I don't use it, I don't use the rhyme dictionary,
(allright, but just twice...) you get what
you see... right or wrong
it will be what it will be...
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