Sent: 1/24/2005 10:41 PM
you preach against tyranny
yet you are a tyrant
resembling dictators of before
owning your massive kingdom
through preemptive absolutism
launching your heavy military
using fear to force us to war
you ravaged peace as a whore
tell me once again
what we went there for
you preach about democracy
yet your machine runs solitarily
carefully suppressing
smoothly calculating
creating very scary
while we're all left here voiceless
oppressed beneath your mandate by one vote
as commanded by the new law you just wrote
we're tense in knowing that you rule
and ruling over rules you do
you preach for liberty
yet we pay to be your slaves
let us lettuce feed your baby
its covetous appetite a maze
increasing provincial productivity
so that wealthy masters are profiting
bought outright from historic inequality
earth's citizens starve for breath
pushing life's merry-go-round
round and around until their deaths
you preach of freedom
yet hold the only set of keys
just outside my grasping reach
in ridicule you dangle 'free'
before my land's native child
who cries to all humankind
for those blind to finally see
and seekers to fundamentally find
you blatantly covered in hypocrisy
as you taunt me by coercing,
'heaven's not far away
all you have to do
is do what i say'
for once you might want to listen
to your eloquent but corrupted idealism
and understand the words you deliver
when you're arrogantly kicking sand
in the faces you decree as sinners
for if heaven is truly close at hand
and your pretension is any sign
then right now is the exact time
to be it
before you preach it
de-f&-'ni-sh&n
words carry their meaning
and are valued as truth
only when they come from the heart
