what we trying to achieve
short-changing dignity
so that we'll be perceived
to be successfully living
more like
excessively giving
to some systems
controlled
to keep freedoms on hold
systems persisting
in taking down those resisting
and profiting
while destroying
that which makes life
worth living
we expecting respect
by correctly selecting
what these
tv's projecting
its pulling
our own ego
over our eyes so
we don't see the lies
realise, despise and then try
to demand its demise
as traffics congesting
we think we're progressing
but where to exactly
are we heading
so aptly
what we believe in
so raptly
these old-pattern economies
its not like we can't see
yet continue pursuing
these same same trajectories
capitalists
still cutting rain forests
they
taking the rain from us
from
America's grain farmers
they
bringing the pain on us
climate change
sometimes seems the same
as me going insane
cutting this jugular vein
and selling
this own blood
subsistence farmers abandoning
sustainable seed saving
corporate profit craving
selling sterile seeds
and roundup
researching
terminator technology
what's motivating these companies
well being of community?
i'm so tired
of these lies
rural communities weren't scratching
in the dirt
to survive
before agribusiness arrived
subsistence practice was resilient
and thriving
now families caught
in vicious spirals
of debt
and farmers
committing suicide
families caught
in vicious
spirals of debt
and farmers
committing
suicide
