Wake Up America (Poem)

Posted by Zephyr
The walls of our ivory tower are stained black
with the layers of dried blood
from the sins that we have committed against humanity and ourselves
Mixed with the smoke screen of lies
that he leaders that we have elected
 have asked you to support

That ivory tower that we poached from Africa
we built up so high
 too high for most
but not for a few
who are fortunate enough
to take their silver spoons
 from their palate
 and levy them for gold ones
 and for those who commit incest
 by raping their own brothers and sister
 to enter the royal ivory tower

For those one percent who make it
without these crimes-
shame on if you do not make it better for the rest of us!

If everything that you own has a designer label on it -
you have failed us all!
 Too ignorant to realize that their joke is on you!
 Keep on slaughtering your cash cows
 so you cannot breed more cattle
to feed your own!

To hell with your Louis Vuitton-
 there is a child who lives down the street from you
 fighting for her life
because her mother is dying of aids
 and cannot afford to feed her!

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Your ivory tower is chipping apart
piece by piece
as you family is being crushed
 under the falling debris!
They are hypnotized by the lullabies
 of the television sets, the internet,
movie stars, black guitars
and the multimillion dollar players

College grads - seduced by the fairy tale
Invested time and money to a system that has failed us - all of us!
We pay the money to abide by their rules
 and get a piece of paper that says
we are "worth something"
 all the while only learning what they allow us to-
now isn't that something?
We graduate to be in debt to the loan's we can barely afford to pay back
because the "good jobs " are gone!
So that we can support those in that ivory tower

WAKE UP AMERICA!
And get out of the way!
Let the ivory tower crumble - better yet-
LETS BURN IT DOWN!
 Capitalism decapitates most for the luxury of few
Elect better leaders?!
 We cannot -because one of the two evil twins always wins
 El Diablo or Satan
Why do we still use the electoral college system-
designed by white men who had slaves
 At a time when women women were burned at the state for their beliefs!
 Old ways have died yet we allow their noose to remain around our necks?!

WAKE UP AMERICA!
If you don't believe that change beings with the end of the electoral college voting system
then you don't know enough!
Let our politicians get minimum wage - see how far that goes in their limos!
WAKE UP AMERICA
Don't die in your sleep under the rubble of the fallen debris watching your TV's.

-- Shaman Chitta
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