Pendulum - a Poetry Book

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10. BLEAT

There is an absence of love And an abundance of hate People dying to be consumed, Consumers dying to assume,

Assimilate, masturbate Sickly they exacerbate And emancipate All they feel they have to hate Our enemies portrayed By our Big Brother State An Orwellian Horror that simply grates Against my sensibilities My soul, trying to imbue my essence

With negativity in spades Oh there’s an absence of love And an abundance of this, I can’t simply watch you As you’re taught how to mate

War with terror and terror with hate You’re a sheep, a dead bleat Clothed in a human disguise, Look at all the love and creativity You’ve smothered to give life To this corporate lie We are people, souls, lovers, Halves of two wholes,

And yet your ignorance feeds The all consuming greed 33


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