War

© 2003 Black Hole Media Co. All Rights Reserved.

The puppeteer of propaganda

Strikes again

And sells the citizens

A lust for death

In the name of nationalism

And the pride of acting tough

The blood is shed

Upon the ground

Because their minds have not

Evolved enough

 

You wrap the flag and wear it

Like a social womb

And chastise those

Who don’t agree with you

As the bloodlust reaches fever pitch

You’ll sloganeer some more

No longer care or recollect

The reasons that your nation’s fighting for

 

A country’s ego

Is the sum of its intent

I’d hope the lives and money

Would be spent

On improvement of the common good

And quality of life

But more often than not

It builds up armies

Just to slaughter and divide

 

The ways to solve the problem

When it’s waging war

Is just the lower animal’s way to go

It’s much easier than dialogue

Diplomacy takes time

In the instant world they live in

They must stick to faster ways

Of changing minds

 

A convenient tyrant

Always helps the cause

Although the conquerors

Can be much worse

With the promise of democracy

Of course it’s for a price

Though freedom is the selling point

Their profit is the genuine device

 

Civilizations kill themselves after a time

The greed leads to eventual suicide

With the ache for power taking over

Like a deadly drug

The addicts do not know

Or really care about

What they are dying of

 

The ones who gain true wisdom

Tend to see the signs

When their world loses

Its collective mind

And the time is coming soon

When we will see this for ourselves

The foundation’s going to crumble

And the structure will collapse

Upon itself

 

And from the ashes

Of destructed humankind

The phoenix of the higher mind

Will rise

And the hope is then renewed

To see the chance of better ways

To resolve the conflicts

And to end the savage tactics

Of the darker days

 

 
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