Everybody knows

I awoke pissed off today. Then my Poet of music Leonard Cohen set me off to describe my emotion.

                
                 
                  
                   (I borrow a few lines from Leonard Cohen.
                        Sometime we need to learn emotion and feelings
                        from people who lived a long life.)



                                    "Everybody knows"


Mr. President.

Did you see the gas prices?
Poor people making minimum wage won't be giving lunch money
to their kids.
Will be eating ramen noodles for lunch at work.
Must decide to fill gas tank or pay bills.

"Poor cities in the USA are getting the left over."
Do you give a s**t?
The bloody rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Gas companies made biggest profit the past year ever by sucking the last dollar and hope
from the people. The oil company sells us the oil they bought six months or more ago at highest price they can get and no-one cares..

Where are you Mr. President?

"Was the fight already fixed."
We have a rich man president?

Everybody knows.

House representatives. 435 men and woman.

I saw your budget.
1.1 billion for food and office.
2.3 million per representative to live on.

How many people have nothing in your states?
How many people are homeless?
Are the schools teaching the future of the USA properly?
Do you walk your streets and see the pain?

No equality in the USA yet.
Babies being born in the poor cities.
With one foot in the grave at the beginning.

Wars are being fought.
No-one  knows why we are fighting anymore?

Contractors got 465 billion dollars and cost of war over a trillion.
The rich man knows why.
Poor man born to serve at eighteen.
Hell of a world!
When going to war is better then to swim in the waste and s**t.


Senate.

I won't waste words on them.
I hear "here or there of them."
A group of useless people serving their needs.


       I pray
I pray to the sky, the water and the earth.
Sent wisdom to the men in-charge.
Please insure all children have food in their belly.
Please lord of life and earth.
Insure all children have a warm bed to sleep in.
Please lord.
Give opportunity and strength to the people in need.
We need a miracle.
War and hate is controlling my world.
Please sent some Angels of love and peace to assist.
We could use them today.
                             Thank you 
   
I awoke with fear.
I fear for tomorrow.
What will our children have left?
What have we done?
I hated my father for doing nothing.
Now am I any better?
I believe I did less.
Will my children despise me for doing nothing.

It is time to yell.
Write to the leaders. All of them.
Demonstrate in the streets.
Gas prices will be $4.00 a gallon.
Poor man will pay for the greed of the rich man controlling the USA.

             Everybody knows.

Does anyone care?

                             Coyote

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Author's Note

I borrow a few lines from Cohen. In the old days words could change the world. Today money and oil controlled the world. It is time we all give a shit about our world. What will you tell your children when they ask. Why are people homeless and the world so hard?

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

Leonard is the soul of the human conscience~you couldn't have picked anyone better to open the wound from which your own pain flowed~
this is the world~ there are the few at the top of the madness perpetrating atrocious crimes against humanity~perhaps not on perceived grand levels of physical torture~ but one more insidious~ the wreckage of the human mind and the human soul~ they love to break the spine and create flexible consumers~ more and more are becoming aware of the manipulation and less and less are tolerating the injustices wrought by the greedy little control freaks~ sad to observe that here in this country we have elected them~believing/aching to believe every promise of hope and change when in the end "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"~ your poem is a call to becoming conscious HUMANE BEINGS again~ bravo~

[*~DreamDeamon~*]

love the truth of it all.
Great ideas, and good topics.
good flow, and anger does show.
i find anger is what is behind most poems.
i say good job. i really like it..

[Awkward]

This has just left me speechless and pissed off! It's just incredibly how most of us know the reality yet none of us do anything about it! We are all just specs of dust to the rich man yet we don't take this as an insult, we just take it an go, think about nothing but ourselves and we don't realize how horrid our conditions are. This is a topic not much care for, wether its writing or even talking about it. Thank you for sharing with us. Incredible poem haven't read a poem like this in a long time.

[YouoweYoupay]

"Sent wisdom to the men in-charge.
Please insure all children have food in their belly."

Sent should be : 'send', and belly should be: 'bellies'.

"Everybody knows.

Does anyone care?"

This is truly the question we need to keep asking today. Amazing poem with true, underestimated anger and overwhelm. You are so right. And I pray for peace and quiet too. Excellent. Keep writing. 100.

[Ashesh]

things are same everywhere in world. the corrupt-power-hungry have endangered slowly the existance of poor. the wild river of greed has widened the shores of rich and poor. my country is also in similar quandries.. may god help us.

[Sunflower/Sara Kendrick]

Great ideas penned about topics that should not exist..I feel for the people of our land who are having a harder and harder time making ends meet...Sunflower

[Holly O'Brien]

Wow, this evoked so much emotion. From the first stanza my throat began to sting with sympathy. There are so many things that are unfair in this world and I feel the rich suffer too from certain situations of their own. The point is, maybe life is unfair...it doesn't seem things will ever be perfect...and if they do become better...there will always still be problems, a reason to complain. This is why I am glad the ending segment of this poem was a prayer...surely I believe and join hands in that prayer too.

This is a magnificent poem where you captured your energy and turned it into something that could be shared...because we are all here too, feeling these things. You expressed yourself so well♥

[jose]

i really like this one, it shows how corrupt our government is now a days. i notice it everyday, and i think about it. when i try to persuade people to make a change they simply turn their head away and accept this way of life. Why do we as citizens elect such corrupt leaders? we need to pay more attention to our "leaders". The world is so corrupt and we need to elect good leaders, and this poem opens peoples eyes. a great poem with a great meaning. Im only 15 i cant do much yet but try and change things in the world. People don't take me seriously but i'll make a difference (sorry a little off topic) but anyways truly such a great poem.

[Ginger]

Bravo! You deserve a standing ovation for this. Very powerful words my friend and I agree with you one hundred percent.

[Sherbs Dreaming Tree Of..]

Absolutely beautiful work!

[Kelsie Eileen Stark]

This almost sounds like rant.... wonderful write....you capture my attention.