Brighter Future

A lack of experience is a sum of ignorance...

Born into objectivity
My brainwashed peers subside
2000 was the breaking point for generational cyanide
Progression has it's place
Fleeting from our face
From yours truly, one of Y2K
And a student of the times.
Streets and internet, my school
Educated in my own way
The bums will always lose,
Yet this dropout never paid.
Anonymous we stand,
On the banks of the river damned
Awaiting our mission
Nuclear fission
The dawn of a very long day.
Attention! Deficit, obey!
Pills to disable my will...
With the freedom to sit, beg, and stay-
-as long as I have skills to run the rat race.
In 2001 2,996 still stick
Because bricks break bones
But c4 explodes
My parents were ashamed to have a one-year old.
The son of a cop and a protester,
I was thrust into the reign of error
-of stupid men with guns,
I learned to distrust badges when I was very, very young.
Not hard to bank my name,
Because I was assigned a number
The receipt of my birth
Printed not of earth
But of a globally corporate state
-in short, I belong to a marginal stock exchange.
The dollar signs in your eyes
Tell me your windows are only mirrors,
Teeming with ignorant fears
Subject to resentment, subjective to the years.
Drinking bleach flavored like rose
Revolution grabs my soul
Our problem is of a solution-
Chemically imperfect,
Crimson, toxic, charred tar
From blacktops to roads
The playground of poison
Where the concrete phoenix arose.

Reviews

[J Todd Underhill]

I like this piece, my favorite lines "I was thrust into the reign of error, -of stupid men with guns" I host a poetry podcast at www.facebook.com/coffeewithunderhill and would love for you to consider submitting your work.

[Indra's Child]

is it too late to take up this offer?
I'm sorry I didn't get back to you a year ago, I was in a bit of a difficult position.

[J Todd Underhill]

I am on hiatus right now... but send it along for when I return.

[Indra's Child]

Alright, I shall.
Thank you for the opportunity and invitation.
Lp