from The Ashes Rising
Hearts frozen, bodies on the ground With oceans of grief to drown in Why bother? Why stand? Why care anymore? Our world keeps on dying, How can we turn this around? Are doomed as a species, How to unmake this hell? Sleeping in the fire, we’re conditioned to not feel flames consume us, We don’t feel it We don’t know it is real Too distracted by social media to go out in the world, To afraid of each other, We’re all alone Ice filled viens stepped in apathy Told to close our eyes we always obey Smile for the camera make it look real Make our dead eyes sparkle, hide us from ourselves Our true selves imprisoned, we don’t know who we are Our masks became lifelike in their hatred and vice Something is wrong here, Our world makes no sense Amazon Prime to the rescue with their book on depression for ninety nine cents! When a new war happens we think as we’re told asking no questions We absorb all their lies hide our face from the...