Control

Tear up the ignorance

Remove the fear

Get on with the clean up

The end is near

Began a long time ago

Machines constructed

From ideologies

Relentless power struggle

Mountainous monetary controls

Industry grows and grows

Out of ingenuity

And across the scape it rolls

Great western rat race

Paves over beauty

For piety grinds up

Creativity for mediocrity

Burns youth into soot

Leaving replicas of ash

Superhighways tolled

For cold hard cash

Mirrors reality in skyscrapers

Reflect upon cities of this

Inferno opens and glows

Consuming our souls in bliss

Powers artificial enlightenment

Cement ponds for every home

Appliances of convenience

Hum soft and low

Washes cave wall silhouettes

Allowing us all to think

We are intelligent

For living in this epoch

Tragic flaw of self-awareness

Accumulated knowledge

Documented history as bible

Thumping beliefs as revival

Towards a scientific dirge

Marches blind faith

Alongside ego vows

Never to relent

In search of a covenant

With one’s own ignorance

~

DBrown Fisher

© Aug 1997