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When speech isn't free and voices are crushed, we're ...
Broken
Nihilism;
the coping mechanism
of society
rife with strife.
Who cares
about today's lies;
tomorrow,
everybody dies.
Don't want to hear it.
Nothing I can do,
will make any difference, so
shut up, won't you?
Hate in our hearts,
we go for each other's throats,
fighting over cows and goats
oblivious to the
vultures who gloat.
Waiting and watching,
biding their time,
they swoop down like cowards,
when the pickings are prime.
As our humanity slips away,
silence nibbles our soul, and
when we can't cope with reality
we just choose not to see.
If we don't see it,
it doesn't exist,
will see us through the slow torture
to an apocalypse.